Space Globes (varied) Print

My interest is in the understanding of apparently random events. This led me to working with a glassblower (something I knew nothing about) and exploring expansion and contraction in an enactment of post-Big-Bang processes with extremes of heat, light, and rotation. Blowing glass pushes forms and colours into a sense of order in a sort of evolutionary process. The beauty of the glass solidifying from such extremes of heat fascinates me and the tactile nature is compelling, a desire to touch coupled with a fear of the inherent fragility. I like to explore how things impact on other things, reflecting on cause and causality. In my punctured paper works, ideas of history and time wrap around, a repeated action radiating outwards that can be viewed from both sides of the paper, a squeeze in one dimension becoming a bulge in another. The archaeology of marks or objects, the material culture, invites investigation and the desire to draw closer, to connect in understanding. Enquiry and process impacts in art making and hopefully integrates the viewer and maker with the image.. The similarities with scientific research is obvious in these processes. This project ‘Curiosity and Creativity” conversing with astronomers has moved working and looking onto more informed pathways, whilst preserving the excitement of random acts. My work tries to ask the viewer to look longer and closer, to consider the results as the aftermath. The implications of the history of time travel through these works. The more we discover through the art of looking the more questions open out in front of us. History and time move us back and forth in our understanding . We are where we are and everything is around us. There is something in the abstract in creative acts whether creation through purposeful will or from making sense of random events colliding. The direct access this project has given us to Scientists and Researchers has yielded a deeper understanding in reflecting on how things are defined by the very processes that occur. This project spanning as it does the arrival of Brexit and Trump brings many reflections on the scales of turmoil, on our planet and within our universe, the fragility and strength of things, the heroic nature of trying to understand, the scale, and the balance between understanding, not understanding and acceptance.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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