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'Opus Magnum' series, Sand Grain 3, Coconut Grove Beach, Antigua Photograph
United Kingdom
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
About The Artwork
. Opus Magnum - Questions of Consciousness "… perhaps [we are] laying an infinitesimal grain in the scales of humanity's [world] soul. Small and invisible as this contribution may be, it is yet an Opus Magnum…" (C G Jung Collected Works 16, para. 449). A small grain of sand (0.65mm), collected in a random handful from Coconut Grove Beach, Antigua. The grain is a 'foraminifer', a minuscule marine organism. Its species is one of hundreds of thousands to be found around the world with differing external protective test (outer covering) shapes, and its evolutionary lineage covers hundreds of millions of years. They are possible indicators of ocean health. I have a deep and emotive response to both the visual beauty and the idea of this incredibly tiny grain of sand. We are forever incumbent, I believe, to work in the service of our own developing Selves, in whichever manner and to whatever 'level' we are able, in growing consciousness. Within modern times with seemingly less and less helpful cultural, containing, spiritual ethos, this seems to be becoming an issue for the individual. This Self-development is not only for ourselves, but done for others, our communities and ultimately the good of our kind and our natural Earth environment. As an artist I can develop my Self and my work so that I am contributing new consciousness in some infinitesimal way to others lives, communities and to the 'Opus Magnum'. My artwork proposes to add some 'grains' to the scales of humanity's world soul. This series of photographs is ongoing and may evolve! This photo was taken with a optical light microscope, combined with a digital camera, and used image stacking software for focal depth. There is an associated photographic print available to enhance your appreciation of this artwork; 'Coconut Grove Beach, Dickenson Bay, Antigua'. This shows the source of the sand for the artwork.
Details & Dimensions
Photography:Color on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
******My art is an ongoing personal evolution and 'journey'; a conversation and relationship with the world. Through images, words and ideas, often spontaneous and intuitive, it is their gradual realisation on paper, or through 'making', by which I 'research' and find new knowledge ... ******I work/have worked with a variety of materials and processes; photography, paper, book arts and the written word, glass, and built sculpture, natural or recycled materials. Often I work with 'lines', metaphorical and real. ******For my 'Glass and Light' series, I have revisited earlier work, particularly of the Australian 'Sculpture by the Sea' 2013/14 exhibitions. I re-question the personal and wider meaning in each artwork. *****My photography, 'Real/Unreal' series, 'Dynamic Earth' series, 'Opus Magnum' series, is about world beaches visited, their visual 'outer' landscapes, and their 'inner' microscopic awe-inspiring sand grains; it is about ways of perceiving; large to small, outer to inner, inner to outer. There can be a 'spirituality', and 'Eden', found in the natural world; this needs to include both the 'light' and 'dark', and acknowledge potential idealism. *******I hope that my work stirs questions and gently widens perspectives and sensibilities. *******For 'bread and butter' I currently work at the Britten Pears Arts (charity) Snape Maltings Concert Hall and music campus site, on the banks of the Alde Estuary, in a non arts capacity, but absorbing the creative vibes. Also at the Aldeburgh Cinema Trust box office. *******I have a small secondhand and new bookselling unit in a shared shop in Hay on Wye, at Clock Tower Books. Books have always inspired :) *******Please note: My photographic and 2D artwork is available to buy here as open edition prints on photo paper at small size. Please contact me via my Instagram if you have queries.
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