Some artists are quite happy with the degradation in their artwork… it is a part of their intention… and then, there are artists who perpetuate the same practice without questioning what and how they use their materials. It is important to me as an artist to respect the materials and make informed choices that connect on a conceptual level with the intended artwork.
I am interested in the effects of free radicals on paint films and paint fu film degradation but on a conceptual level been drawn to consider the behaviour of free radicals. It is this consideration that led me to present the behaviour of colours in my work.
Every colour behaves in a different way and in different lighting conditions and as artists we have to predict what that colour is going to do. In Luisant, my use of fluorescence challenges my predict, as they will undergo changes as they fade and respond to a different lighting condition.
The colours in Luisant evoke an experience about the life, demise and memory of colours. I’ve referenced the landscape but no particular place it is more the experience of memory, playing with its constant changes of light and colour, and its fragile form.
These pages below are the early ramblings, questions and inquiry about the connection of ourselves with a very small particle of colour.
