Driftwood,
2009
- The artist's studio is a deserted island
where all sorts of material drifts ashore from across
the sea. The sea contains all art ever created - but loss, waves and currents have
brought that which belonged together away from each other, and that which had
no relationship, together. Some of it has sunk to the bottom and is forever
gone. Another way to look at it: The gallery is the beach, the artwork is the
driftwood. The contemplator considers the debris. So what is the meaning of
this, she wonders..
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Starseeker
oil
on canvas and stretcher, staples, mountings, screws
265
x 120 x
Rocket 1+2
oil
on stretcher, glue, screws
140 x 120 x
Sign
Oil on stretcher,
staples, mountings, screws
150 x 120 x
Weapon
Oil on
canvas and stretcher, staples
179 x 32 x
Sail Away
(the Great Escape)
Oil on
stretcher, canvas, staples, mountings, bolts, screws
194 x 170 x
Art history may
be coined metaphorically as a kind of cultural driftwood passed onward to us,
here in the shape of prefabricated materials meant for art-production,
specifically painting. The idea of this allegory is to release the material
both mentally and concrete from its apriori purpose,
like driftwood of unknown origins, gently letting a process of associations and
disassociations freely develop new constellations. The strictly limited
material use (stretcher, canvas, oilpaint, staples,
wire, mountings; a kind of make-it-yourself-painting-kit )
is contrasted by floating lyrical intentions, still somehow connected to the
mythos of art.