VOIDAL PATHWAYS
Documentation
Follow the Path
A phenomenological duration reinstating the living-present in constant flux.
“In one way it is the state of consciousness, in another, a surface film of matter in which perceiver and perceived coincide.”
Bergson, The Endurance of Life
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2022, Tempera paint and sand on panel, 120x90 cm
What is to be devoid?
A memory yet to be…
“The feeling of the sublime is at once a feeling of displeasure, arising from the inadequacy of imagination in the aesthetic estimation of magnitude.” - Kant
The Sublime, ed. by Simon Morley
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Acrylic sealed panel, 80x60 cm
A Path to the Void
“What respect reacts to is the possibility that, in perceiving the transcendental object as void, the subject might also ‘come to’ the void of [their] own ground. The consequence of such a ‘coming to’ would amount to nothing less than the annihilation of both the consistency of the world around me and the consistency of myself…” - Adam Drury
Drury, Agalma at the void: on the subject on an eventual sublime
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2022, Glue, sand, acrylic, oil paint on panel, 60x80 cm
Close your eyes
Entangled Abyss
Ballpoint pen on paper
Further Documentation/Sketches
Embossment experiment print, 40x40 cm
"A Cartographic Void," 2022, oil paint, sand, and glue on wooden cutting board, 32.5x22.5 cm, wet
"A Cartographic Void," 2022, oil paint, sand, and glue on wooden cutting board, 32.5x22.5 cm, dry
"Broken Darkness," 2022, acrylic on mdf panel, 41x22 cm, in process
"Broken Darkness," 2022, acrylic, oil paint, and sand on mdf panel, 41x22 cm, in process
"Broken Darkness," 2022, acrylic, oil paint, and sand on mdf panel, 41x22 cm
"Red Sublimity," 2022, tempura paint and sand on mdf panel, 40x40 cm, in process
"Red Sublimity," 2022, tempura paint and sand on mdf panel, 40x40 cm
"Red Sublimity," 2022, tempura paint and sand on mdf panel, 40x40 cm, detail I
"Red Sublimity," 2022, tempura paint and sand on mdf panel, 40x40 cm, detail II
"Close Your Eyes," 2022, graphite on Fabriano Rosapina paper, 70x100 cm
"VOIDAL PATHWAYS," studio view
Taking part of the Dwelling in Extremis Art & Humanities Postgrad Exhibition in Dalhousie, UofDundee, VOIDAL PATHWAYS is a series of experimental paintings and drawings that take a critical view and response to notions of the unconscious, the sublime, and the hyper-objectivity of the cosmos. Through temporal explorations of the past, present, and future, I aim to question the extent of the human consciousness and memory within the void of thought and mind. Meditating in this dwelling of darkness and emptiness can unlock discoveries of wordless thought, capable of endless realities of imagination.
