The work of Jaq Belcher explores the void, the space "between". Renowned artist and paper cutter, Belcher was born in Australia, and currently lives and works in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and her Master of Arts Administration from the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Belcher focuses her art on the process of reduction and repetition, manipulating the very essence of matter. She believes that art should not be thought of as an object but instead as an experience itself. This philosophy draws on her references to eastern meditation, spiritual alchemy and sacred geometry. Belcher sees the white expanse of a sheet of paper as a beautiful void, she pondered how could she possibly add to such a thing. The answer came to her, she would do just the opposite, she would begin to subtract from it, to slice out shapes, images, ideas. The patterns and shapes require not only herself but the viewer to maintain a type of meditation and focus on the work as it is experienced and worked through. The results are amazingly complex yet are very calming to be with. Viewing her work is an excersize in the power of "now", it focuses on the present on the quietness in the space "between".