Mixed media (Clear acrylic, CDs)
12500 x 3000 mm
Confluence is part of my C-Scales (“C”, being the universal symbol for the speed of light) series. They are a product of many years’ of research and experience, and an amalgam of several areas of exploration.
In 2013 I became aware of the painting of the pioneering abstract Korean artist Kim Whanki (1913-1974). Whanki’s later paintings from his New York period held a particular resonance for me. They were calligraphic and spoke to me of musical notation and binary code. Ideas of messaging danced in my mind; I remembered the illuminated form of Morse code, a system of dots and dashes made in long and short blinks of light. I began employing Morse code to translate texts, so that I could produce both pattern and a decipherable message. I loved the notion of embedding personally meaningful information into my work in such a literal and distilled manner.
Confluence was inspired by a recent visit to Salisbury Cathedral during which I learned that the Cathedral sits at the confluence of five rivers, the Avon and four of its tributaries the Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.
I am aware that my interpretation of experience is perpetually in a state of flux. Memories of an experience change. Each artwork reinterprets moments in time, distilling them and representing them as abstractions of my past. These artworks live neither there, nor here, they only represent my remembrance of an experience.
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