John Sousa

Region: Midwest

 I think of each work in my Chaos Fields series as part of an imagined plane of infinite possibility, where anything can emerge out of the field/void. This is a play on both the formal field of painting and the frothy, quantum one of physics. At the quantum level, it seems reality’s emergence requires observation; with art, the viewer is also essential.

These works do not dictate; their meaning is unfixed. Instead, they suggest. What you experience is filtered through your personal perception. The notion that ‘any possibility’ can appear out of the field/void gives me the freedom to include in them whatever I wish. This has led me to be more playful than usual. I like to say these works are like Robert Ryman paintings gone bad.

The work rewards looking.