Invisible Destination – Question 2
What do you mean when you refer to the “invisible destination”?
I am conscious that the majority of the time I am addressing an audience within a context grounded in this world. An aspect of what I do is a call on something that lies outside the mundane and everyday. In a tribal context this entity is a supernatural spirit and the maker must satisfy its demands. I cannot touch this element but it touches me. If the work is to approach what I set out to do, the integrity with which it is put together must be manifest and consistent. In this case I do not overtly display an “intimate self” but mark my sincerity by working on physical aspects that are not always open to the immediate gaze. They are elements that could be omitted but if I were to do so the works would become copies, no more than pastiches made to satisfy some aesthetic whim. This internal reference each work possesses confers an independence to the works which can form an indissoluble nexus with aspects outside their immediate placement. However, the works are not insensitive, reacting to constructive and destructive resonances in their surroundings.