Ar Drothwy / Brink

A Sharpened Perspective on an Altered Landscape

Coming into the nearness of distance.

Martin Heidegger

These works are an attempt to articulate the fragility of the self, the dynamics of damage and where power lies, as we stand on the brink of this third machine age. Through the deconstruction of a landscape it interrogates notions of visibility, exposure, and control. 

The repeating metaphor of pollarded trees, in works that reference Rachel Cusk and Frida Kahlo, explore the self, as well as W.H. Auden’s “nuances of damage”.  They suggest how vulnerability and vigilance may alter perspectives.  Stepping back, the appropriated clouds of J.W.M Turner and John Constable alongside online images of data centres, examines the nature of our new technological sublime where power lies, as Shoshana Zuboff explains “invisible, unknown, unaccountable”.  In contrast, the small monoprints of roots suggest value in the incoherent.  

Layers and repetition of print and sensations of fluidity and weight are used to explore these ideas.  

William Kentridge asked, are the “layers a kind of covering or are they the means of exposure?”

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