The forms we return to shape the space between us.

What moves me

I'm fascinated by the relationship between opposites: ideas that can't be fully described without the context of the other. Their union creates a kind of balance. Within that balance, dual yet whole, is a mystery I study through expression, feedback, and imagination. Improvisation and refinement work this way for me: distinct, but interdependent. By holding the unplanned alongside the deliberate, I'm both creating and letting the process unfold. Art, for me, is a way of connecting people through many perspectives at once. The viewer and the artist share a thread, made possible by the balance between individuality and collective experience.

Source Forms, my latest series, began in 2008 and grew out of a series of thought experiments exploring improvised focus, where attention moves between zoomed out (fluid) and zoomed in (focused). The process is about turning mistakes into intention.

- Henken Bean