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About the Picture
Pond life revisits a sequence of works I produced whilst at Art College in late 1995. I had at the time an inclination to
produce a fluid semi-abstract world, or bacterial soup, of archaic forms. Simple entwined objects and ancient eyes, embedded
in the landscape, disclosed a prevailing sense of mysterious depth. I was at the time playing with notions of irrational being:
Schelling’s nature philosophy and the writings of Shaftesbury. When I later rediscovered these writers, and started
to read them in a studious manner, I also dabbled once more with a visual representation of these themes. There is something
enticing about the work; I am reminded of the CoBrA movement, Klee and early Pollock. Whilst it is not the most successful
example of the process, the amoeba shapes and prehistoric sensibility achieves the majority of the pieces aspirations. Ultimately
though, without the complex narrative and symbolic language afforded by my other work, the style seemed to lack an ongoing
potential.
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