Text by Hannah Collins, April 2005
Death is a natural companion to the recording of life. In the moment of creation death is at its most manifest. We are thrown into a confrontation with life by this moment and this dilemma gives us many things.In the act of creation we are inevitably drawn into an abandoning of matter, into the solitude of activity, into the depths of the present and imagined place and time. When we create we appeal to time as we ask for more. We also restore emptiness, absence and we create a vacuum where matter once stood.
Art in which a death/life impulse is the subject matter is therefore both a gathering together and recording of material as well as a force in which images and objects are jettisoned from the everyday into an art experience.
These four artists all make art in which the moment of creation is fragile and active, each artist focuses to some extent on death and the breath of life in its multiple visual, symbiotic and experiential relationship to our creative impulse.
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