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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Negotiating Doorways, 2007
Mixed media: conte, ink, gouache, charcoal, collage on pressure mounted paper
126x96cm framed
[Purchase for $2000]
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, and here just as the old buildings have been changed over time we may not be able to find which entrance to use.
Piller of Strength, 2007
Conte, ink, pastel gouache, on paper.
100x85cm, framed
[Purchase for $1200]
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. Darkness and light show or hide the way.
Shut in/Shut out., 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
114x88cm, 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, and here just as the old buildings have been changed over time we may not be able to find which entrance to use. This idea came as I looked at buildings of Catanya, Sicily.
Thoughts, feelings, flashes, glimpses come and go., 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
133x107cm
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.
Thoughts, feelings, flashes, glimpses come and go., 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
133x107cm
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.
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