We live at
a time when visual data from the sciences microbiology, physics,
and cosmology are among the most beautiful and compelling images
we encounter. Our post-modernist perspective has moved from an aesthetic
that regards portraiture, landscape, and still life as iconic representations
of the true and the beautiful, to the view that the traces of sub-atomic
particles and photographs of distant galaxies have more to tell us about
beauty, truth and our place in the universe.
Positioned,
as we are, between the very big and the very small, something must bring
us back to the human scale, and I have chosen the humble button. These
little circular forms (and their painted facsimiles) suggest to me individual
units of being or matter, like motes in the sunlight. They represent,
both formally and symbolically, all the different orders of magnitude,
from sub-atomic particles through suns and galaxies. It is my intention
that as viewers explore these three-dimensional encasements, they cast
themselves gently into space-time and drift in a place where there is
no up and down or falling and rising, but only floating as one element
in the field.
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