What if ideas were colours?

In his latest body of work, Liminal Spaces, Vodden reimagines the Colour Field movement through an ultra-contemporary lens, posing the question: “What if ideas were colours?” This inquiry lies at the heart of a series that translates philosophical and psychological concepts into immersive visual phenomena.

By pioneering a unique technical process, Vodden anchors each work in mirror-polished stainless steel, which serves as a reflective surface. From this foundation, he builds layers of semi-transparent, alcohol-ink-dyed resins to achieve optical colour mixing with chromatic clarity. The technique harnesses refracted light, internal reflections, and subtle chromatic aberrations to create hues that shift and transform as the viewer moves. These colour effects are integral to the work’s structure - carefully engineered, and impossible to replicate through traditional means.

Each piece contains a universe of light, motion, and colour, calibrated so that tones merge and diverge like currents in a visual field. The result is both technically rare and aesthetically compelling, offering collectors artworks whose uniqueness resides as much in their method as in their meaning.

True to its title, Liminal Spaces positions the surface as a threshold between material and immaterial, self and reflection, light and colour. As these shifting tones echo the transitional nature of ideas - never fixed, always in motion - the mirrored surface draws the viewer into the work, their reflection dissolving into chromatic aberrations that embody the very concept each piece explores.

By uniting innovative technique with a deeply psychological engagement in colour, Liminal Spaces creates contemplative environments that challenge perception, spark introspection, and reward close, sustained viewing.