Julian Oates

The painting as a whole represents an umbilical cord to another world and provides the knowledge to understand whatever may come from this world. The world the painting connects to is not supernatural or mythological, it exists as belief, emotion, site, touch, smell, taste and sound right in front of us every day. If you combine the number of foot steps (264 000 000), heart beats (2.5 Billion), blinks (400 000 000), words spoken (370 110 001), breaths taken (672 768 000) in a lifetime by every person in the world today it adds up to……. 25 241 268 006 000 000 000 Atoms in a grain of sand: 20 000 000 000 000 000 000