As
an artist I have always been interested in surface and surface dynamics. More
recently my work has undergone a radical consolidation and transformation, as a
result of direct impact, having being diagnosed with malignant melanoma skin
cancer. My cancer, thankfully, was detected early and surgically removed. The
event, however, propelled my artwork into a completely new direction that has
raised many questions for me about, “Being”, “Surface” and “Language”,
connected to the disease as a metaphor linked to our world experience.
The
disease is both ephemeral and tangible, the art work, posits itself at the
tension between the rational discourse of the medical world and the poetic
dimension of the “Being” experience. For example, the visual culture of graphs,
symbols, markers and cellular visual imagery, are blended with the landscape and
layered with automatic text to create a visual and conceptual tension.
Through
this body of work I am hoping to communicate an experience of the disease as a
complex dynamic that has many parallels both in the broader social context and
indeed in how we perceive our own lives in relation to surfaces and the dynamic
of what’s happening underneath.
