Discombobulated days
Big clouds, vistas doused in hot light, weather lines, partly veiled images.
If I think of the word ‘everlasting’, it is nature, the sky and the stars that are my reference points for a word like that.
The sky is turbulent, cloudy, windy and just overhead. When the sun rises it has many different appearances, sometimes the light is glinty, beyond warm, just a flood of bright light. At times it’s brightness makes the sea appear black in contrast, at other times it is pure silver, brown, yellow, grey, then blue and green.
Drawn on handmade paper, the pencil mark is broken by the rough surface interrupting the image. Using cut lino blocks I overlay more lines partially veiling the image. Seemingly random, they float above the landscape like a weather pattern.
I know that change is constant, but the rate of change is hard to comprehend and conflicts with the idea that there is something everlasting. Depicting these unique and not entirely real moments are processes to acknowledging this change.
Discombobulated Days from the exhibition Looking with Tess Horwitz, Narooma Gallery
Image credits: Photography Brenton MCGeachie
L - R and top to bottom Discombobulated Days #2; #3; #4 #5; #1; #6
Pencil on hand made paper, H 267 mm x W 277 mm
