2022
Pastel on cotton rag
1000mm (H) x 700mm (W)
Unframed
In an explorative in situ installation, Chora Carleton presents Thickets and Clearings. Created in the gallery, the mural like drawing expands day by day. The work responds to what happens within the gallery as well as what is observed through the panoramic windows. This work was made in a one hour session marked by the date and time of its title.
NOTE: sold unframed. Framed image is for inspiration.
My practice centres on sensory perception connected to spatial arts theories of atmosphere, phenomenology, and durational experience informed by Deleuze’s philosophy on affect. I often use colour and material to highlight the nuances of duration and bodily experience found in the everyday or normative sites. Recent works have taken on new materiality and scale with the inclusion of pastels into my primary watercolour practice. My current explorations combine the two mediums to create a visual miasma of colour, which uses the layering and smudging of the pastel media to employ a transparency. These aesthetic mimics the densities of how we perceive moments in mindfulness while the watercolour develops structure and line as planes of encounter with surface and object. These visual languages attempt to tease out the strands of familiar experience that are often hidden from us in the cacophony of the mundane.