Grids
‘They grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership; they go through their processes, and there is no expectation. The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it.’
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The Grid Series took six months to make. Following my time at the RCA, I sojourned in south wales where I endeavoured to make a quantity of pieces. Pursuing a richness of colour, I made my own paint. On the one hand, I contemplated simplicity and materiality, on the other, complexity and visual richness. My task was to observe two paintings together and to identify the mystery that joins them. This made the words of the Tao Te Ching make perfect sense, but did not stop my smoking habit.
grid one, 2023, gouache on paper, 60 x 30 cm
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