CHASM

DICHOTOMY - MAGPIE GALLERY
6 September - 25 September 2008

Chasm presents the culmination of all my research and thought. it employs a visual grammar comprised of the Romantic Sublime; the Modernistic Absolute and the Post-Modern Hallucinogenic. Each of these visual devices aim to create an experience of escape in that they involve a certain Self-forgetfulness. They intend to release the perceiver from the constraints of the human condition through some euphoric/sedated disconnection.

The resultant visual is akin to a type of doorway onto an existential abyss. There is the beginning of something and the end of another: a threshold that once crossed, will change everything. A dark formless uncertainty at once grotesque and beautiful - still, silent yet menacing.

THE THICK UNGIVING COLLAR - 594mm x 841mm - Archival inks on 100% cotton rag - Edition of 5

YAWNED BEFORE US - 594mm x 841mm - Archival inks on 100% cotton rag - Edition of 5