The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award 2006

Carlier Makigawa

Artist statement

I know this to be an empty state,
that is to say, a state of form
—Jack Kerouac

At this time I find myself constantly searching for the essence of a life and through making. I try to visualise something else, not there but present, as beauty itself is the realisation of simultaneous emptiness and form. It is as much about what is not there as what is. I return to a path and keep moving, observing, and am surprised by the apparently effortless way that life moves and grows. It is a constant revelation, this natural, unplanned growth. This movement though space of energy to organise a system that drives outward, arranging itself into a previously non-existent structure. I try to draw this essence, re-building and reaching for a connection.