Dark Matter Artwork

‘The way to address our vulnerability, fear and self-destructiveness is by making friends with our weakness. We can’t drive away our demons by willpower. We can’t get through the troubles of life by self-reliance alone.’ My work seeks to investigate the human condition. In particular I am interested in recovery from personal trauma and private grief; the impact these experiences have on the individual psyche and its projection into the surrounding space. I seek to make these experiences material; in two, sometimes three dimensions. My means are mostly abstract but my subject is very much the human being. This work was inspired by hearing a radio broadcast by the vicar of St Martins-in-the-Fields in London, in which he urged people not to ‘hold on so tightly to our private struggles and agonies.’ It is a drawing depicting entities with something dark, a ‘black hole’ at their core and is made using materials I have worked with before, charcoal and pigment combined with a masking film which I use both for creating stencils and for building up the physical surface of the drawing. I like the feeling of suspension in the drawing, with the 'dark matter' somehow held immobile, suspended in the web of tentacles.

Mixed Media:Charcoal on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:45.7 W x 35.4 H x 0 D in

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