Textscapes

Inferno, i, 32. Oil and collage on canvas. 136 x 90 cm. 2008
An Aesthetic State of Categoric Indecision. Oil, collage and beeswax on canvas. 180 x 136 cm. 2009
Take a Line. Oil, collage and beeswax on canvas. 180 x 136 cm. 2009

These works take a deconstructive approach to the traditional theme of the landscape. Using the walled city, the garden and the labyrinth as central motifs, they explore the idea of the making and breaking of boundaries – between inside and outside, known and unknown, text and image. The texts are taken from Jorge Luis Borghes’ Labyrinths (Inferno, I, 32., 1962), Peter France’s introduction to The Philosopher’s Garden (2004), and a hand-book on mazes and labyrinths, respectively. The paintings evolve organically, as the conflict over territory is enacted on the canvas, using a variety of painting, drawing, printing, collage and decollage processespart game, part strategy, part mind-map –  resulting in multi-layered histories of mark-making.