Title: Null Hypothesis
Media: None
Dimensions: n" x m", where (n,m) are any positive real number.
Finish Date: January, 2006
Description:

Much of modern art has some concept as its principle content or raison d’être. The Campbell’s Soup tin of Andy Warhol is an example. You see it, you get it, exit stage left. The possible choices of common place objects and elemental content ideas are endless. This work is the ultimate extension of the idea: null content. It has a name, a size, a date of execution and medium of execution (nothingness). It is achromatic but not kinechromatic.

This work is at once tongue-in-cheek and absolutely serious. First of all, it is as valid as any other conceptual work. However, there is a subtle difference between null content and no content. Before this (non-)image represented here, there was nothing. In representing it, and certainly by giving it a name and description, it now has content even though the content is null or nothingness.

I have given the image the property that it can be of any size. One can imagine that it has an innate elasticity that allows it to be stretched or compressed to fit any frame. As intellectual property, it has been granted a Canadian copyright, January 26, 2006.