BotanicalsAll it takes is a puff of air and our paper thin lives become ghosts.
Delicacy; fragility; vulnerability; the temporary; beauty and decline; seeing the intricacies and then circling around to our own frailty. |
Acrylic paint and ink on canvas, 30 x 30cm
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Phantom Vision, Solo show - February 2025" phantom vision, is a condition where visual hallucinations occur as a result of damage along the visual pathway.
People experiencing Charles Bonnet Syndrome have intact cognition, insight that the visual hallucinations are not real, and absence of other psychological conditions". *Pang L. Hallucinations Experienced by Visually Impaired: Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Optom Vis Sci. 2016;93(12):1466-1478. In March 2020, my sister began to lose her sight as a result of illness and she described to me what she was seeing. We were staying in Wanaka at the time and I would go for long walks each day along the Clutha river. I saw many thriving immigrant plant species whose colours seems more lucid to me than usual, strangely out of place yet totally at home. As Autumn turned to Winter that fateful year, I thought more deeply about what it is to see and be in the world. |
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Acrylic on linen. 60 x 90 cm
Acrylic on linen. 60 x 90 cm
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Meteorology
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60cm.
Acrylic paint and ink on plywood. 30 x 63 cm.
Acrylic, Gesso and Mica on linen, 30 x 30 cm
Air, water and dust are all that is required to make cloud - a recipe of sorts. Observation of clouds is an ancient habit inspiring poets, artists and scientists. In 1802, Howard made to classify clouds along a the Linnean system, capturing them with Bi-nomal latin names, forcing the into boxes of "enlightenment" knowledge. Clouds are more complex than we thought.
Air, water and dust are all that is required to make cloud - a recipe of sorts. Observation of clouds is an ancient habit inspiring poets, artists and scientists. In 1802, Howard made to classify clouds along a the Linnean system, capturing them with Bi-nomal latin names, forcing the into boxes of "enlightenment" knowledge. Clouds are more complex than we thought.
Ink, acrylic graphite paint, glitter and ink on gouged ply, 60 x 60cm
Graphite paint and pencil on ply, engraved text. 30 x 30cm
"My talk this evening concerns itself with what may strike some as an uncharacteristically impractical subject: it is concerned with the modification of clouds. Since the increased attention which has been given to meteorology, the studies of various appearances of water suspended in the atmosphere has become an interesting and even necessary branch of that pursuit. If clouds were the mere result of condensation of vapour in the masses of the atmosphere which they occupy, if their variations were produced by the movements of the atmosphere alone, then indeed might the study be deemed a useless pursuit of shadows...."
"On the Modification of Clouds", Howard, Luke, 1802. Speech to the Askesian Society, London.
Graphite paint and pencil on ply, engraved text. 30 x 30cm
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