2007
Wood, Irrigation Tubing, Acrylic
Status: Available artwork
I use the Date I
completed the artwork as the title to my Paintings. There is no
'concept/theory'. My Practice
(process and materiality) is theoretical in
itself. The Art is inside the work. Any 'ideas' are manifested from the
process and materiality, therefore the meaning is
in the
artwork.
The wall plays an
important role in the work - it is now my surface or canvas. But does the wall
remain the 'surface' when
the work creates a shift between 'figure and
background'? What in the work creates this figure and background shift?
What does this shift do
to the work? How do you
view the
work? Do you sense you are looking across at it (like looking through a window)
or could you be looking down at it, as if it were on the floor?
The work itself plays in the medium of painting and drawing, but as I use mainly objects, does it become a sculpture? No. I work in the 'space' between the institutions of painting/drawing and sculpture - a slippage between the two.
My 'cultural' nature has come through Process and Materiality. First, I work horizontally. That is, the artwork is created on the floor. One is looking down to create this way, meaning that creation is not coming from our normal upright way of seeing things. Instead, we read or see with our bodies' other senses. Is this a 'space'? Second, there are 'indigenous' skills of weaving, binding, cutting, knotting, tying, threading etc. which have been transferred into the materials. This is also a 'space' I work from - a slippage between Art and Culture.
By working in this 'space' of slippage between two identities - art/culture and drawing/object - I have found 'my own space'...with time, a 'language' will come.
