BREACH

Using a Fibonacci sequence, our world is shown here as a circular battlefield, littered with casualties: countless tiny figures, cut from black paper and pinned to a wall that are walking, standing, kneeling, falling. From a distance it looks like a collection of abstract dots but on closer inspection one discovers each individual figure in the crowd is an argument for the intimate importance of our presence in the scheme of life.  

The focus in the work is the consideration of home and displacement as situated within modern geopolitical realities. Ideas of belonging and estrangement are affected by our relationship to time and space but are also inextricably situated within collective systems. These structures sometimes become corrupt and reason for conflict that can vary from local to global proportions affecting each individual.

The current work engages with the impact of the psychological complex that constitutes the core of this dialogue. To capture the actuality of this lived experience I use strategies and economies of drawing, as well as formal aspects of scale and monochromes.

Each figure is unique, about 2 cm tall and is cut by hand from black paper before being pinned directly on a wall or in this work, onto paper covered foamex board framed in perspex.

Breach, like the other works on my page, is a site specific piece.

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