30 × 25 × 4 cm (12 × 10 x 1.5 inches)
Acrylic on canvas.
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This is part of the Passage series, and it feels like a passage without arrival. There is something about being submerged that has always seemed connected to transformation. Perhaps this is why water appears so often in rituals of passage, from baptism onwards — entering one state and emerging into another.
But here there is no emergence. The figure's head remains above the surface while the body disappears into the water. Pink, blue and green begin to intertwine, and the boundary between the body and the water becomes difficult to find.
I think this is what interests me about passage — the moment when one thing begins to become another. It reminds me a little of Michael Armitage, where figures can seem to dissolve into the landscapes around them, becoming part of something larger and less certain.
Perhaps there is something of Derrida here too — the difficulty of finding a fixed boundary between one thing and another. The figure is simply there, submerged. No shore.
30 × 25 × 4 cm (12 × 10 x 1.5 inches)
Acrylic on canvas.
Free shipping anywhere in the world.
This is part of the Passage series, and it feels like a passage without arrival. There is something about being submerged that has always seemed connected to transformation. Perhaps this is why water appears so often in rituals of passage, from baptism onwards — entering one state and emerging into another.
But here there is no emergence. The figure's head remains above the surface while the body disappears into the water. Pink, blue and green begin to intertwine, and the boundary between the body and the water becomes difficult to find.
I think this is what interests me about passage — the moment when one thing begins to become another. It reminds me a little of Michael Armitage, where figures can seem to dissolve into the landscapes around them, becoming part of something larger and less certain.
Perhaps there is something of Derrida here too — the difficulty of finding a fixed boundary between one thing and another. The figure is simply there, submerged. No shore.
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