Welcome to MarkStafford.Art! 

Pismis 

33 x 25" Acrylic on Arches BFK, 2026.

Make Space to Resonate at Gather Center curated by Allison Harrell Mistier

 94 Guernsey Street, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NYC

The Origin of the Ecospheres

21 x 30" Acrylic Painting on Arches BFK, 2026

The Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth

25 x 33" (framed) Acrylics, dry & iridescent pigments on Arches BFK, 2024

The Pillars of Creation 

30 x 22" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024.

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Black Eye Galaxy

33 x 25" dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2026.

The Lagoon Nebula

30 x 22" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024.

A Mystic Mountain

30 x 22" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024

The Cone Nebula

30 x 22" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024.

A Cyclic Existence

22 x 30" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024.

A Portrait of Beings Unseen

30 x 22" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024.

A Galaxy Like our Own

22 x 30" (unframed) dry & iridescent pigments with acrylic media on Arches BFK, 2024.

Dualistic Articulations occur where regular (Baryonic) Energy and Matter interact with the "dark phenomena" (black holes, dark matter, and dark energy) as they graft their subluminous influence that compliment or compound the observable-- and yet envisioned by many; Velatura di Spazio, topology, & the Tree of Life.  the depth that supports the subconscious, likely suspends the cosmos as well,  My sketchbook bounces between ideas relating to the observable universe and creation with physical paint, and ideas that I find conversing with cosmological models inspired by books, papers, and videos by physicists who focus on space, gravity, black holes, dark energy, dark matter, and many deeper theories.

Beneath the surface of physical reality, intuition is equally as important as our observations aided by our highest technologies.  Our dominant sense only "sees" a very small fraction of reality, and it seems like "everything" to us.  I do not think that seeing beyond spacetime involves perception through quantum events; that would involve observing an exponentially branching path in superposition-- which I just don't think our memory and visual cortex can continuously collaborate on while also negotiating direct visual stimuli.  Physicists believe the point of the black holes interacting with spacetime is only part of a line and possibly greater forms of geometry that are not part of our spacetime.  This simple line that the black hole is part of is called a "SPIME" So in the works below, the rope and trees are spimes, and the blooms or leaves of the plant life are the odd spacetime geometries blooming into four dimensional the collage of spacetime, with their accompanying extradimensional roots made to be primarily visible in Black.

Essentially, if you take a cross-section of the vine, rope, or plant life, in these metaphorical models, you have an event in spacetime, since they are dark phenomena flowing through the universe my proposal is that our black holes are lenses that focus their influence to suspend the light and matter we experience, like a phase from infinity-- locked in a forming or dancing spiral, guided by the spacetime it incurs.   In this way, Black holes are not the consumers or destroyers matter.  They exist in all points along the branch of their respective tree simultaneously.  We, in spacetime, however, only exist in the cross-section for as long as our galactic equilibrium is supported as a vortex between the infinite extensions of the spime.  These black hole events regulate our physics and actually incubate our existence. 

The Tree of Life

63 x 51 x 35 in.  Rope, iridescent pigments, valour fabric, rubber, and epoxy resin, 2025.

The Allegory of Survival; a family portrait of an infinite filament

28 x 51 x 9 in.  Rope, dollar store flowers, iridescent pigments, reflective films, and epoxy resin, 2024.

A Coming of the Ages, I am the Vine, John:15

28 x 40 x 23 in.  Rope, dollar store flowers, iridescent pigments, and epoxy resin, 2024.

Echoes of the Familiar

21 x 24 x6"  iridescent pigment and reflective film in epoxy and fibers imitating plant life, 2024.

Fleur de Lis, 

24 x 21 x 6"  iridescent pigment and reflective film in epoxy and fibers imitating plant life, 2024.

Of Origins Unknown Our cycles are sown

9 x 9 x 9" Porcelain, dry pigments, and epoxy polymers, 2026.

Lichtenfire Curatorial, 175 Rivington NYC

The Pinwheel Galaxy

12 x 10 x 8" Porcelain, dry pigments, epoxy polymers, and wire, 2026.

Before the Dimensions Eclipsed

11 x 7 x 9" Porcelain, dry pigments, and epoxy polymers, 2026.