Notes from the Artist

“Still-life” and “Waves” is a contrast of static and mobile

“Still-life” and “Waves” is a scene of routine and spiritual life

“Still-life” and “Waves” is a distance of the past and the present

“Still-life” and “Waves” is a sculpture of shading and the colour spectrum

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There are two parts in this exhibition – “Still Lifes” and “Waves”.

Despite the fact that all of my source material (films and a novel) are narrative, my interest is not in the plot or characters but rather in those small moments that fill the little spaces that fall in between the main narrative.

“writing to a rhythm and not to a plot" --- Virginia Wolf wrote to a composer about The Waves

"Each chapter of Woolf's novel (The Waves) is preceded by a meditation on an aspect of the waves, on one of their hours, on one of their becomings." ----  A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

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Still Lifes

In this series, the large-scale drawings are based on film stills from classic Japanese and Chinese cinema. The “Still-Life” works are derived from a close looking at the film, an examination of the smallest elements that form part of the misc-en-scene.

The elements I have chosen are the lily from And Then, the orchard from Spring in a Small Town, the plant and slippers from Tokyo Story, and the outfit of the wandering artist from A Story of Floating Weeds. The clips extracted from these films are printed, sketched or animated with the addition or deletion of some content.

Waves

For my other part of the exhibition, I have chosen to examine Virginia Woolf’s novel , The Waves. The novel consists of nine interludes set in italic type, forms a one-day scenic – light and shadow movement - from the sun-rising to the sunset - the description of the landscape of sea and shore.

Based on my previous installation pieces, in which I collected tiny stones of different colours found in nature, for this piece I am using 9 copies of the novel, in which the text of each copy has had all the words referring to a specific color or light or shadow painted out with the colour, thus substituting a purely visual element for a linguistic one.