NEGOTIATING DOORWAYS
This image was part of a series of architectural works which was influenced by interior places and spaces in Rome, Sicily, and Barcelona. Architectural space provided a metaphor for me to explore and facilitate the imagery of journeying into the existential questions of being. The stairways, tunnels, passages and large spaces, the gates open or closed, explore meaning and the possible sense of entrapment or freedoms. The ideas set forth the premise that inhabiting or being inside architectural spaces is a physical, psychological and spritual state. They are all elements within our emotional and existential landscapes.
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Circumvolve the Centre Chamber, 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
118x85cm,float mounted/framed
[Purchase for $1800]
Architecture as a metaphor provided an opportunity to work with what I describe as psychological space. The forms allow me to use stairways, tunnels, passages gates and doorways that are open or closed to explore possible meanings. It facilitates the imagery of journeying, here the subject is the crypt of Antoni Gaudi's temple in Barcelona. It embodies the idea of going around and around, over and over and returning to a central area... the sense of not being able to move beyond the immeadiate most pressing situation.
Course-Way, 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
66x50cm
Art works from the series Negotiating Doorways 2007 were acquired by the law firm Fenwick Elliot Grace; Construction and Engineering Lawyers and are here shown in situ in their offices.
Course-Way, 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
66x50cm
Series shown at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide. Architectural mixed media drawings influenced by the building in Italy and Spain. On another level they are metaphorical and I analyze question about human isolation and meaninglessness, about freedom, existence and existential questions. The works are essentially psychological spaces, they connect with imagery of human journeying; stairways that do not always connect, doors that are not always open.
Courseway. no 2., 2007
Gouache, inks, conte, acrylic, collage, on paper.
92x72cm, framed
[Purchase for $900]
Architecture as a metaphor provided an opportunity to what I describe as psychological space. The forms allow me to use stairways, tunnels, passages gates and doorways that are open or closed to explore possible meanings and facilitates the imagery of journeying.
Discomposure, 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
66x50cm
Art works from the series Negotiating Doorways 2007 were acquired by the law firm Fenwick Elliot Grace; Construction and Engineering Lawyers and are here shown in situ in their offices