Peter Robinson-Smith
(tribute to Klee)
(tribute to Kandinsky)
| BLEACH WATER, 2 DIMENSIONAL INVENTIONS Imagery is evoked from black, sometimes brown, papers, by way of various mixtures of bleach and water. Not unlike the gradual gradations that appear from a photography darkroom (developing pans) process, so too the work and motifs evolve as an appealing mystery. The paper works are then placed or forced into the surfaces of either rusty, junk metal planks or old barn boards - some large, up to 10 feet wide and 3 feet high. All images conjured improvisationally and spontaneously, with various jazz artist's music as important inspirational, aural, part of the equation. The process notably evokes theme and motif in part from Jungian ideas about darkness and light and the intense balance between them that must be equated each day. This is also parabola; similarly the essential theory of the Hindi religion, where one needs to equally honor, acknowledge and worship 'both' gods of light and destruction and their existence. Otherwise, ignoring the darkness that exists within us all (as within the collective human psyche) risks that such negligence fosters cause for rearing [its] ugly head in order to be equally heard and respected. This work represents a very personal and vital part of my own ongoing work in art expression.(See Review) | |||
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