About the Artwork

Panic perspective is an expression of multiple perspectives on experiencing panic. From being completely absorbed in panic perception to observing it in silence.
The poems approach the three perspectives. From these words the painting emerged. Making this artistic expression has taken several years of deeper exploration on the subject.

Working with panic requires crossing a threshold again and again. To transcend the first perspective once more and make room to express it.
Once further along in the process, you become more familiar with the second and third perspectives; there is detachment and the panic becomes more manageable.

A poetic exploration

Unusual Unfamiliar Unknown.
Can you encompass existence?
make it tangible. Get a sense of touch. Or grab onto it?

Or perhaps just let life in.
Open to it and Receive.

Let go and observe.
Can you encompass existence?

I deepen.
And I do not disappear.

Feel a vulnerability.
A childlike smallness.

A fear of being fully present in the world.
Or is it simply unfamiliar and unknown.

Can you encompass existence?

Poetic and Work in Progress video