"It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%.

The rest – everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter – adds up to less than 5% of the universe."


I created this piece over the course of two weeks, as my grandfather passed away. At the time, I had read a scientific article that declared “roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest – everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter – adds up to less than 5% of the universe.” This is the 5%, the sum of all human experiences and observations. The ephemerality of ink floating on water captured on paper echoes the function of memory and impressions that stay with us. Marbling repeatedly makes delicate wispy forms become dense. This denseness of information implies meaning, but is not language – it is experiential. It is a memorial to my grandfather, and those last moments I had sitting vigil with him, alone but not alone. The materiality of the paper, lifted slightly off the wall, divided in 4 sections, is a nod to the human impulse to take something unexplainable and try to make order from it.


Marbling process in improvised marbling pool