Spatial Order

Pen, ink and gouache on paper.

These sketches are working compositions for a series of paintings I am currently producing. The paintings are ink and acrylic on board, and the boards have been shaped (similar to the outlines of these drawings).

The lines follow invisible grids, isometric geometries within defined spaces. Hard edge axes act like beams of colour, that bleed away into subtle gradients.

©ADG2014

Sleep Patterns

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Watercolour, ink and pencil on paper, with digital reflection.

Building these amorphous structures with paint is a highly repetitive activity, and I find that it dominates my vision as I grow drowsy. Closing my eyes the painting continues as a form of hypnagogic hallucination. The pattern is animated in this dreamlike state, as I lay with a diffuse-absorbed attention.

The sequence continues in this cycle. The vision of an image to capture, painting towards that image until tired, hallucinating the continued growth of the image, and the bifurcation of a new image.

©ADG2014

Witch Hat II

Traffic cone with metallised film (cask wine plastic bladder).

Highly visible, the traffic cone spends most of its day standing still, marking hazards or redirecting traffic. Silently involved with the work of others, it stands lost in thought, disconnected from reality.

Staring back at the cone, it becomes an object of dissociation. Transmitting a tranquil silence where contact with reality is blurred.

©2014

Cryosleep

 

 

Utilizing various sounds made by running computers, an atmosphere is created. The noise of computers thinking generates a dark, cold drone, that is conducive to sleep.

 

Out in space, with nothing to cast a shadow, there is no day or night. Aided by computers, you can sleep for eternity.

©ADG2013

Reptile

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.

©ADG2013

Mind Control

• Neon Yantra •

Watercolour, pencil, and felt-tip pen on watercolour paper.

The yantra is an instrument for meditation, a diagram to focus the mind.

The fractured surface, with its geometric lattice of self-similar elements induces a quality of movement. This movement, towards and away from the centre, has an effect similar to hypnosis, merging the view in front with some inner landscape of the mind.

Beneath the surface there is geometry, vitrified skin and light.

©ADG2013

Threshold I

Synthetic polymer paint, and fluorescent gaffer tape on boxboard.

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This rhombus is a prototype, the starting point (threshold) of an object of reflection.

The luminescent (lumin [light] essence) tape, radiates colour from behind the painted surface. A photon is absorbed as an equivalent photon is immediately emitted.

The geometric form resembles a hallucination experienced in the transitional state between waking, and sleeping (Hypnagogia). Lucid dreaming, the subjective experience on the edge of sleep, occurs at this threshold of consciousness.

©ADG2013