Venus, the peel of emptiness

What interests me about illusion is that it has no inherent reality yet under its influence, certain things can take on a concrete form. Things that exist in reality and things that are true are transformed into layers of overlapping shadows that cannot be distinguished one from the other
This, to me, is what is important "within the work" and what the painter must be attentive to, and not just the interesting subject matter that is "external" to the work.

Natee Utarit cited in The Fragment and the Sublime, exhibition brochure, Valentine Willie Fine Art, 2006, unpaginated