Oil on linen

Signed on the back.

This painting depicts a peculiar association of subject to physical space.
It is part of a series which examines the artifacts of temporary migration, looking at how people move into a neutral environment and start to inhabit it.

The use of expressive brushwork, sharp contrasts and spatial distortions illuminate or add information while symbolic elements, informed by the subjects activity, or the artists own reaction to the space, further disrupt the illusion of sheer figurative representation.
The works are intended to be neither illusory nor capsules of time, rather, instances of mnemonic stasis wherein an existential query is substantiated.
Embracing a synthesis of both external and internal realities, the series interweaves themes of dislocation, habitation and the subliminal response of the psyche towards the unknown.