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The Time Has Come
The overall theme of my works are an ongoing exploration into the vestiges of civilizations past rather than being a search for a single identity the works reflect a sense of what might remain of ritual practices, burial sites and contact of unknown tribal groups. I endeavor to assimilate or rather synthesize universal primordial cultures, rather than portray any specific group. More specifically I am interested in the mythology incorporating the soul’s journey into the afterlife/underworld and the vestigial remains left to mourn their passing. The work is influenced by thinkers Carl Jung and James Frazer in that I am creating transcendental archetypal imagery. The images or objects do not need a conscious explanation, but should find un-meditated resonances in the viewer’s mind. Denis Gautier has suggested the works “reflect upon the ‘primitive’, that is, a non-sophisticated and non-rationalized view of the inevitable cycle of life and by focusing on the unconscious and the spiritual I exploit and exaggerate the openness of interpretation”. Heather Hamel suggests that “installations are sites for ritual and procession… That (the) long-time meditation upon source and (the) intensity of process give (my) installations a sense of the ‘transhistoric’.1 In this exhibition, The Time Has Come… I have focused more on the means of travel, rather than what remains. The boat, as a symbol, is tied to the soul’s journey - being cast out to sea or floated upon the river to enable to soul to travel into the underworld. The second image being focused on is -the angel- commonly used to illustrate the heavenly realm. I feel the works I produce create a starting point for the viewer to bring into being memories or connections of their own and thus awaken narratives for themselves and complete the circle I had only begun! 1 Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion |
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