“Whatever the Essence of the Soul may be, it is the Reflections arising from Sensations only which makes her acquainted with Herself, and know her Faculties. Vast Objects occasion vast Sensations, and vast Sensations give the Mind a higher Idea of her own Powers.”
John Baillie
My work is an investigation into the experience of the sublime, the contrary sensory experience of pleasure and horror when watching a building collapse.
I find this guilty pleasure in destruction and I then reinvent it into an act of creation through the process of painting.
The main area of visual focus is the organic and amorphous shape and quality of the smoke and how it contrasts the man made building. I employ the technique wet on wet, the formation of the cloud demonstrates a more instinctual approach to painting. I am consciously working to create marks that are unconscious.
The main area of visual focus is the organic and amorphous shape and quality of the smoke and how it contrasts the man made building. I employ the technique wet on wet, the formation of the cloud demonstrates a more instinctual approach to painting. I am consciously working to create marks that are unconscious.
The scale of the paintings reflects the transcendence of the experience and the supremacy of the act of creation. The blue background is a vibrant and promising hue to allure the viewer into the optimistic offering in this scene of destruction.