The simple truth is stillness is never perfectly still. Quiet – enforced – serenity is still set to the background hum of life forging ahead. As we sit in stillness, shadows and light proceed apace across our now all-too-familiar walls. They shift and transform at a glacial pace before our eyes.
Though this suspension of normality feels as though the world has ground to a halt, it paradoxically also feels as though the world churns on relentlessly in the face of seemingly impending oblivion.
One of the themes my practice deals in is optical movement. As such the theme of Seeing Stillness presented a unique challenge that forced me to pull that illusory movement that I had found in previous pieces back into a static state once again. That tension between will of movement and disciplined arrest is the sweet spot where this piece resides.
Though my colour selection is ordinarily more pronounced, this time I sought a palette that spoke with the same clarity and precision; this time in a whisper rather than a shout.
Drift and Fade were created for and shown at Seeing Stillness at Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery in Sept-Oct 2021. They were shown again in the Brunswick Stree Gallery’s Small Works Art Prize in January of 2022.
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