I/We Art

Pistyll Rhaeadr

.This work “Finding joy at Pistyll Rhaeadr” seeks to place you in the image to experience the scene as though you were there. The joy is that this person has found a solution to the opposing forces shown on each side of the image. The technigue of placing a "back-figure" in the image was used by Caspar David Friedrich and is termed Rückenfigur.

The Singularity

The Singularity represents the moment computers reach a kind of consciousness. This moment is now very close with predictions that it will be reached by 2029. The idea for the image comes from Sabina Spielrein's work where she often used the example of the sea to explain the unconscious which is below the surface and the conscious above the surface.

This image from the Balcony series was inspired by Gustave Caillebotte work “Interior, Woman at the Window” 1880 which shows a man reading a newspaper and a woman at the window. What Caillebotte achieves in this image is to create a sense of isolation between the figures. In the work shown here the sense of isolation between the figures is extended to the scene beyond the balcony of a woodland wildfire.

The Balcony Series

Wonderland Series

The Wonderland Series 1 shows representational elements which refer to our experience of a place or object and the abstract is about a more combined experience that is created by sharing with others. Put in I/We terms the repressentational is the "I" that is our experience and the abstract is the "We" the shared expience. The composition of the image follows work by Andreas Gursky particularly Rhine 2 and also Rothko in seeking to offer both tension through opposition and calmness in the blending of elements. The aim of these images in Series 1 is to symbolise both opposition but also the coming together of ideas in resolution. The Second Wonderdand Series uses strangeness to highlight issues.

The Wonderland Video Series

The wonderland video series similarly combines representational or abstract elements or strangeness. For more about the Wonderland Series see note below on Oddish Fun Art.