Sutra and Fragment
(Sampled and Remixed 2024/5)
If you’re involved in process-based work, you’re quickly reconciled to the idea that almost everything is a work-in-progress … until suddenly, and sometimes surprisingly, it’s not. It may take two hours or two years to finish; what’s important is that you’re true to the idea, and willing to go through the pain barrier. These two series of paintings entitled “Sutra” and “Fragment” have taken 25 years to resolve (in small bursts), but they have found their final resting place.
“I’m not really interested in making things by boring processes, so quite often the way I start on something is by designing the process: thinking about what an interesting procedure would be and then going ahead and making it.”
Brian Eno: In The Studio, BBC The Documentary Podcast
The remixing of samples taken from previous audio recordings, is a common starting point for contemporary composers, producers and DJs. It is collage; and helps overcome the fear of the blank canvas. The selection of the touchstone sample in crucial, but by adding variations and , elaborations around it, which complement, or contrast with the original, it becomes another.
These painting can be seen as abstracts, or as flat pieces of the decaying, flaking walls so prevalent in Venice. I see the Sutra pieces almost like the surface reflection and the shallow bottoms of the lagoon. Something is obvious, something is lurking beneath; like the blood of the 233,000 people who died as a result of armed conflict in 2024, and the politics that caused it.
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