Suspended in darkened recycled wooden boxes the Beyond series of drawings, float above their environments. Stretched and abstracted forms based, on invented landscapes or imagined worlds of possibility, removed from reality. The infinite choices and potentials of life, underline the somewhat incidental approach to production. As with much I create, it begins with a texture, a wooden board, a concrete wall, some fabric, anything a rubbing can be taken from, or a wash applied over. This suggests details in an almost primal way, an imagined mountain range, a broken forest, a group of people. Dystopian and apocalyptic looking in nature, the images resemble a landscape, but make no attempt at detailed representation. It is image making of a ghostly possibility, an ever dreaded possible future to be avoided, rather than an escape from the current. If this were to arrive here, a fall of society, such as it is, would these primitive marks become representations? Are these possibilities waiting somewhere out there for us somewhere?
More to come as and when they are found, in both the literal sense of being lost, and the finding of such worlds as and when new ones are made. Additional images are available on Saatchi Art here.
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