Memory embodied into physical making; reactivating gestures, marks, punctuations recalling encounters with/in the world - being outside with the wind howling around me, debris/leaves swirling; running across different terrain, sometimes falling, slipping being sucked into the mud; hiding in the grass, swimming in oceans, lochs, rivers; touching, feeling, sensing, almost belonging - using paint and wire and plaster - things that have multiple uses, things that have been used, that come into the world naturally or manufactured. I choose to leave the marks of my passage, my making just as those marks have been left on/within me through my encounters. I am embedded in these forms.
The energy of our being extends around us, a non-corporeal projection of ourselves. Where we meet the world and others, an exchange takes place; this can be many things, such as a a brushing up against, a positive intermingling, an aggressive piercing or an attempt to overwhelm.
THE SHARDS THAT PIERCED ME ONLY INTENSIFIED MY RESOLVE 1
ORIGINAL PAINTING: mixed media on paper
Acrylic, recycled swarf and glass on paper (Bockingford 425gsm); white wood inset frame; w 68 x h 49.5 cm