Friday, 8 May 2009

Laura 2009

Humans are in a constant struggle against time and its limitations - living with an urge to defy time in order to accomplish more than is actually possible. It seems as if we are living in the past and future, and not the actual moment. The misuse of this precious time of ours is a disease most human beings suffer from. Why defy it? Why alter it? Why let it pass by? Why crave for what is not tangible or accessible?
Starting off with abstract painting, and then incorporating more figurative objects, I have come to express time in various ways. There is a subjective approach towards time, such as the feeling of time passing fast or slow, when time is actually passing at the same pace. There is also the objective method of recording time, such as the clock, which has sets a measureable standard. This combination of subjectivity and objectivity are shown in my art as the abstract and figurative component in my pieces. The subjective parts of the art are shown artistically in painterly ways, and figuratively and diagrammatically for the elements of science and mathematics.
Observing this collection of artworks, one is invited to question time personally and generically as well. Symbols such as passage ways, doors, chairs, black holes, and equations can be interpreted - passages and door are placed in order to transmit a sense of transition, beginnings or endings; chairs, as objects which are altered, or not, by the passing of time. Is time passing for objects that are not being observed? On the other hand, there is a more “standard” manner for understanding and explaining time - mathematicians and physicists explain it through graphs and equations.
My art allows for one to question if this is really the most appropriate way of explaining a concept of something that can’t be seen or touched.

Metempsychosis Acrylic and Charcoal

Space Construction I Acrylic, Enamel and Pastel

Stroken Enamel and Varnish
Relativity Mixed Media
Controversy Acrylic and Pastel

Mathematical V Mixed Media on 5 Panels

Flux I Oil, Enamel and Wax

Flux II Collage, Oil, Enamel and Wax

Observer Wax, Enamel and Spray Paint