I was staying in Mousehole, Cornwall in a little fisherman’s cottage on the harbour.  I had been there a few times on my own just writing, painting and photography.

On one stay I walked around the harbor onto a path that went out and around the headland.  A path that as you can see from the image came to an abrupt end – a path to nowhere.

It later dawned on me that it wasn’t a path but the top of a sea defence wall.  But I really liked the composition and stayed to photograph and sketch it.  It really made me think about Journeys or Relationships that don’t go anywhere.  All that time, money and emotion that had been invested with seemingly no reward or payback.
Divorce, Bereavement and Redundancy are three good examples/  All that time and emotion invested with nowhere to go.

But energy cannot be destroyed only transferred, so it has to go somewhere.  Energy can also be Positive and Creative or Negative and Destructive – It could go either way – or maybe its a mixture of both (Yin and Yang).

Maybe you can’t have one without the other.  I tried to take this concept (DEAD END) from a Landscape into a abstract form with some success (I think).  This also lead me on to thinking about Bereavement and what happens to our energy when we die.  My thoughts on this is that once again it must be transferred – maybe to those we have the strongest connection to.

More recently I was thinking about Black Holes which are created when a Star dies.  Could emotional energy work in the same way, turning in on itself and re-emerging on the other side as new life?

I don’t think I will ever resolve this.  Of course none of this is scientifically proven – that is the great thing about art – that there is no right or wrong.  The only boundary is your own skills and imagination.