Studio Projects / In Limine

SEA CANTO (winter 2018/19) 

Necessary Angels, oil on canvas, 250 x 140cm, 2018-19

Relying on a collision of the physical and the spiritual, these large-scale canvases (each is 2.5m long), combine to form one work: a 'Sea Song', a spiritual journey, in and of the sea, yet created without reference to any real landscape or pre-extant visual representation.
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At once a reminder of our complex connections with the sea and of its - and our own - vulnerabilities, Sea Canto is also closely related  to my In Limine project, a vast open metaphor which lingers on the edge of imperceptible boundaries. Always in flux, highly tactile, revelatory and  - I hope ultimately - restorative grounds for reflection.

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Necessary Angels

Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,

​Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set,
And in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone
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Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,
Like watery words awash, like meanings said
By repetitions of half meanings.

(Wallace Stevens 'Angel Surrounded by Paysans')

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