This exhibition depicts the relationship between the self and the outside. A body of work that emphasises my dependence on other humans, on technology and on the natural world. This awareness exists alongside an inner drive that I don’t fully understand, shaped and accentuated by natural conditions, weather, wind, rain, song, poetry, drought, landscape, loneliness and love. These are works trying to narrate something that isn’t fully there, conveying meaning while rejecting the need for intent and content. They are controlled yet have developed naturally. For instance, people flying, people carrying loads that are too large and too heavy for their persons. They want to fly or to fall away from themselves. There is an always present tension between humans and nature, or the pressure of civilisation to get in and out of bed.
These works have taught me about distance, proximity, dependence, about seen and unseen ties, and the improbable in every series of events. About rigidity and softness, the godly and the natural. Those who forgive, those who forget, the close and the distant.
