Psyche D / EvH - Limited Edition of 24 Print

I drew Psyche D in 2017, as part of my Current show. It’s a wildly complex drawing, that freewheeled out of control as it went on. In its initial incarnation it was conceived as a kind of giant psychedelic Krispy Kreme doughnut, with a petal like structure containing a wholly fluid series of line drawings, that bubble and move like a 60’s oil light show, in a kind of camomile pink colour. Looking back from this distance it was either insane, or brilliantly exuberant. I’m not sure which. That piece has yet to be editioned, as I feel it would test the goodwill of any gallery to the outer limits, so it remains on hold, lurking in the back of my imagination, festering really. There’s an interesting conversation to be had there about what should and shouldn’t be editioned, and who chooses. The simplistic answer is the artist of course, but it’s a much more complex issue than that in reality. Ultimately I think you have to take your audience with you, as a shared experience in which you travel progressively away from your start point, trying not to leave too many people behind. If you lose everyone on the path, then you end up speaking to no one, which in itself is an interesting thought to contemplate. Does an artwork need an audience? Not sure. Simply making the work has some significant benefits to the artist, so I’m minded to think the answer is no, it doesn’t need an audience. After drawing Sun : Moon : Cosmos {67} a few months earlier, I realised that I could probably steer the Psyche D study in a similar direction, and so started work on this largely gold and blue piece, that like Cosmos holds a separate core at its centre, a circle in the void, and then surrounds that with an explosion of colour and form, that in some way seems almost like a universe or cosmos, surrounding a planet like form. The blue core can be read in a myriad ways, certainly as the blue pill / red pill question from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, later referenced in the Matrix, certainly as a reference to Bill Ander’s Earth Rise photo taken from space in 1968, alongside any number of other dualities that you may care to plant there.

Printmaking:Pigment print on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:24

Size:37 W x 37 H x 0.1 D in

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