MY ARCHIPELAGO
a new series -- oils and pastels -- 2013 - present
The underwater images from my earlier series APNEA (2007-2012) explored the relationship between skin and its surrounding environment. The figures immersed in their watery space were distorted by light and reflection, the perimeter of their body challenged and revealed.
MY ARCHIPELAGO focuses on the atomization of the figure as it emerges into the air and begins to take up its own space.
Highly contrasted and abstracted, the body disperses and expands into the surrounding ethereal atmosphere, marking empty space with particles of being, tiny traces of self, floating and pinpointing each tiny island. Bright, decisive colours and large white expanses of pictorial space describe the sparseness of certainty as we undertake the long journey of self-inquiry.
All works illustrated are in progress
a new series -- oils and pastels -- 2013 - present
The underwater images from my earlier series APNEA (2007-2012) explored the relationship between skin and its surrounding environment. The figures immersed in their watery space were distorted by light and reflection, the perimeter of their body challenged and revealed.
MY ARCHIPELAGO focuses on the atomization of the figure as it emerges into the air and begins to take up its own space.
Highly contrasted and abstracted, the body disperses and expands into the surrounding ethereal atmosphere, marking empty space with particles of being, tiny traces of self, floating and pinpointing each tiny island. Bright, decisive colours and large white expanses of pictorial space describe the sparseness of certainty as we undertake the long journey of self-inquiry.
All works illustrated are in progress
Theories of the Self, 2014-2015
Untitled, 2015
Oil on canvas
147 x 113cm
in progress
147 x 113cm
in progress
Shift, 2014-2015
oil on canvas
147 x 113 cm
Sophelia, 2015
oil on canvas
