‘considering my actual state, it is a little bit as if I were already gone’.Ī friend was recently diagnosed with cancer. This is knowledge, or understanding, born of experimentation over interpretation, and it is as profound as the emotion and experience the work aims to represent. Where the work makes intuition tangible, both as an inevitable factor of production, and as a demand, even a requirement, of interpretation, it embodies, elicits and precipitates a form of ‘knowledge’ that consists of both cognition and sensation. My work is, by and large, what we might call figurative but it is representative at a far deeper level than is assumed in the way that the term figurative is typically recognised and understood. If we observe all forms, especially the organic forms, we find that nothing is permanent, nothing is at rest, nothing concluded, but, on the contrary, that all is in continuous fluctuating movement. Through verbalising and reflecting on process I have learned to ‘stammer’ in the Deleuzean ‘vital’ sense of being a foreigner in my own language, and within the perpetuity of process that is characterised in the stammering, the and…and…and… I try to embrace a creative multilingualism, the interpenetrative relation between visual and conventional language that both derives from and creates in turn the fundamental narrative by which we exist both as individuals in our own world and in relation to the ‘Other’. Simply slumber’d the force in the seed a germ of the future. Trusteth the delicate leaves, feebly beginning to shoot. I have for a long time been committed to finding ways to actually ‘practice’ from the basis of Deleuzean theory, rather than to simply engage with and respond to it, and in this work I believe that I am as close as I have ever been to doing so.ĭeleuze is insistent as he tells us that people are made up of very varied lines indeed there is a whole ‘geography’ in people. It has been a challenging, revealing, and in many ways an inspiring experience to find myself in heartland between academic detachment and total immersion in human experience, and I have discovered new ways of understanding my practice and its import in areas that extend beyond philosophical theorising in order to address not just the context but the actual realities of existence. MANY OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS ARE FOR SALE AND A PERCENTAGE OF ALL PROCEEDS GOES TO FUND THE WORK OF THE DRAWING WOMEN’S CANCER PROJECT. Scroll down for images of the opening night and the exhibition in situ, followed by the works and the accompanying texts that made up the exhibition at The Broadway Drawing school Gallery, 24th Oct. This exhibition seeks to reinstate the voice of the individual caught between Kingdoms. The experience can be chronic or acute, it can traverse a scale from devastation to mild irritation, but most importantly it is uniquely subjective, allied irrevocably to Self. These are ‘portraits’ of the individual experience of levels of ‘dis-ease’ that can become so much a part of being itself that the discomfort is rarely contained within physical, mental or even spiritual boundaries. Illness begins with “I” is about visualising the experience of illness through a creative act of witness – the ‘art of witness’.
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