My current work addresses issues of communication and miscommunication, and the function of memory in communication. These paintings attempt to document the experiences of understanding, misunderstanding, and not understanding at all. I am fascinated by the complexity of communication between humans, the way memory is stored in the brain, and how information is recorded for future use.
At the moment, I am concerned with the co-existance of dominant and submissive languages. In my paintings, one language is disabled by interrupting the semantics only to reveal another. The scale of the works vary, and refer to blllboards and signage, postcards and printed matter/fliers, or television- formats from which we expect to receive information. I prefer the medium of painting, because it offers vocabulary I find suitable for communicating the human condition.
The deliberate use of color refers to the way my own memory functions, tagging ideas and information with specific colors which act as memory triggers. Since there is no way to prove if it is possible to accurately communicate a memory from one person to another, we can only approximate using language, which poses the question: do we ever truly understand each other?
Paintings
The nature of everyday things
Lack of information
Podscape
Spy fashion
Alluding to an undercurrent
Underlying substrata
Run on
What hit me
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What measure is there
The slowed down bit
Saga music
Speed of the gulls
Over moonscape
Second crossing
A second spirit
Notation
