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| BLUE GOLD - 2002 | AQUA: landscape voices - 2001 |
| "Blue Gold" began with
"Omphalos," an installation created in 2000 during my residency at Pépinières
Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes. Working inside an 18th century architectural folly near Roches Point (East Cork), a relationship emerged between the small body of water inside the tower and the sea beyond. "AQUA: LANDSCAPE VOICES" explores this visual marriage of the rainwater pool and the distant sea. At times they seem to meet, becoming one. In fusing these two worlds of water, the finite pool and the infinite sea, I created a slowly evolving cosmogony where water changes shape and color, palpitating and generating new forms that suggest a kind of mystical union. "Specula," a series of stiacciato, very low relief sculpture-paintings, executed in gold leaf reinterpret the Byzantine and Renaissance tradition in a contemporary register. The works invite the viewer to enter and become part of a meditative space. Shapes laid down in an underpainting of henna and mineral pigments emerge on the surface through the gradual building up or carving away of these forms in gesso, clay and gold leaf. |
