Off You Go

As I pack down this work of several years into a dozen boxes, I’m thinking of the many evenings spent inside a bubble of solitude that enclosed my hands and eyes and curiosity. A needle and thread marked the time and a standing lamp shone a warm light on us, me and my work.

So now this and other works will be seen by strangers in a public gallery and I’m glad of the release. Six weeks in clean light rooms, a little cosmos.

LOOK LEFT / Murray Art Museum Albury / 29 July – 11 September 2022

Proximity

I’ve been thinking about Friends with whom I’ve had social media contact but haven’t actually seen or heard in a long time. The longer it is between meetings, the more fractured their reality becomes. I realised I’m always making assumptions about them, constructed from memories that I think still fit. A story of them.

It has unsettled me. My senses are what I have to perceive the world. Skewed as my perception might be, they’re a good start. I still want proximity.

It’s a conjuring trick, being a cyber friend. We post what we want the world to know, not what shows in a glance or a touch or a tone of voice.

What we miss #1