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INLAND

2023 -24

I discarded a number of photographs which were taken as source material towards the ‘Hinterland’ series, these paintings (image objects) are based on such ‘failed’ photographs.

 It struck me that aberrant images create opportunities for testing the limits of the seen, or perhaps exceeding the limits of the unseen.

Whist the camera can be thought of as an extension of the human eye (a prosthesis) the photographic apparatus does not ‘see’ anything.

I’ve come to see these works as a kind of reverse archaeology transferring an image onto a surface and then building up through various layering and covering, turning images into objects – which live.

“ …..to see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.”

Paul Virillio

These works are oil and mixed media on single panels and range in size from 25cm X 19cm to 31cm x 20cm. See slide show below.