Run for your Life

This meter square painting focuses on the fact that runners are moving through and exchanging energy with matter all around them. Every exposed surface of the body is in contact with the atomic mass of the air, the road and the clothes they wear. Particulates that come into the body via the lungs, end up all over the body. Parts of the body are shed from the skin and are left trailing in our wake. There is give and take in every stride. Even our thoughts that tell us to push harder, run even faster or simply to keep going are exchanged with the universe at the quantum level. This painting explores the sensation a runner feels as they break through the wall. An imaginary energy barrier that brings a breakthrough burst of energy that makes a runner feel as though they could keep on going forever.