Handmade Ultramarine Mantra
Robert Youds wrote, "Time is long. Time is short. Things begin. Things recede. Some things repeat, over and over again. And as nearness becomes more difficult to perceive and everything once distant is brought closer
through technologies – the self may be the only remaining site by which to measure ourselves."
Youds's inward-looking "spinning mantras" from his latest solo exhibition Handmade Ultramarine Mantra at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto 2013: