Dam 2022 oil on canvas 90 x 60cm
What we see is where we are now and where we have ever been. We bring to this moment all of the other moments that came before.
All of this prior experience gets stuck to what is in front of us. It’s bodily and in no way intellectual. Try and steer. Try to navigate. They are all dead ends compared to this driver.
We are at best, part of the medium with which we work. We are part of material’s plasticity. If paint is wet or dry, thick or thin, red or green, it is the task of the artist to spread paint’s word.
it is not so much that we think with our gut or heart. It’s that we digest with our brain. The brain is a filter that extracts simultaneously the goodness and badness of life and synthesises it.
If our brain is required at all, it is to persuade this governing process not to be interrupted.
Don’t stuff things up, we tell ourselves.