Continued explorations and developments.
(MAKING MEMORIES) series
The ideal landscape altered; nature transformed, replaced, distorted; (through colour, through obscuring presence).
Influenced by current events like the Deepwater oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico – the use of the highly toxic dispersant COREXIT – the release from deep in the body of the earth of methane gas. How these chemical combinations, along with the obvious yet hidden machinations and agendas of the corporations involved (business, governmental, media), do and will affect our understanding and experience of the landscape.
VARIOUS
HERMETIC series
Made in spaces with little reference to exterior objects or events; except through imagination, brief thoughts, subliminal process references…
(The term Hermetic is from medieval Latin hermeticus, which in turn is derived from the name of the Greek god Hermes. The term Hermetic is from the Greek word Herm, which refers to a pillar or post used in pre-classical Greece “of square shape, surmounted by a head with a beard. The square, limbless “Hermes” was a step in advance of the unwrought stone.” The origin of the word Hermes relates to a stone pillar used to communicate with the deities and the use of names beginning with Herm in Greece dates from at least 600 BC. The God Hermes is a generic term used by the pre-classical Greeks for any deity, and was only later associated with the God of Knowledge in Athens in the 2nd Century AD. Hermeticism or the Western Hermetic Tradition is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the Hellenistic Egyptian pseudepigraphical writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus who is the representation of the conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth with the Greek Hermes. These beliefs have heavily influenced the Western Esoteric Tradition and were considered to be of great importance during the Renaissance. (edited from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetica))
A HISTORY OF FLIGHT series
Wildlife art; the bird glimpsed, unrecognised, unclear… History of travel by feather, wing, engine; through atmosphere and beyond.
ATMOSPHERE series
Weather; lets talk about… defining the life-defining feature of the planet, manifestations of the chemical nature.
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPE series
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES series
From deep darkness the spark of creation and emergence is borne. The sea, space (big bang / dark matter), chemistry, alchemy, quantum mechanics, the sub- & un-conscious (dream / imagination / vision), night, Winter…
MIGRATOR series
History is the story of migration; movement between land and place. Journey, apprehension, saga, achievement…
ANCESTOR:INTERNALISM series
These explore the classical concept of portraying a figure / identity using head and shoulders. The work is spontaneous and the structure is ambiguous. Rather than fixed notions of appearance and identity they are about the ‘essence’ of a figure, and how meaning is associated with shape. The figures are potentially mute, eyeless, senseless. History is a mixed bag of memory, conjecture and re-interpretation.
