To no unwitting all here unwitting 2026 – 50 x 40cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas
The title is from Beckett’s How It Is, unwitting: without knowledge, without awareness, unconscious of what is happening. All here unwitting. Everything inside the container existing without knowledge of its own condition.
The painting resembles something between a shop display window and a greenhouse. The structure declares itself completely, this is a container, a glass house, a space in which things are held and observed without their consent or awareness. Outside, at the base, absolute dark. The structureis illuminated from within. The night is what the frame makes visible by contrast.
The dark tulip bud descends at the centre. The accumulated vocabulary of thirteen years of painting gathered into a single interior, all of it unwitting, none of it aware of being watched or held or named.
Through the left pane a different light: red spray, a warm vertical form, the atmospheric register of fire or sunset or simply the other side of the glass where the quality of illumination is completely different from the interior’s cool blue-green. Two panes, two qualities of light, the same frame holding both.
The flowers do not know they are inside. They do not know what the darkness outside the frame means. They exist in the condition the container has created for them, all here unwitting, observed from a position they cannot see, in a painting that watches them watching nothing.
To no unwitting. All here unwitting. The glazing bars hold the light in and the dark out and the flowers continue, without knowledge, in the space between.