This new work is about creating a space that comes and goes into clarity and chaos, that looks solid and yet de-materialized, the complex and the cliche. The labor of it has been pulled through my typical 'hair shirt' process of painfully reworking self-imposed constraints. The assembly more than usual, is not as neat as it appears. This was accomplished by layering chromatic spectrums resolving in ONE faceted form of static yet shifting hypnotic pattern.
My interests are in something that is not in creating a picture or an abstraction per se, but an object of aesthetic growth that sets itself aside from the rest of reality to be contemplated as such. The template was built out of a variation of grey-scale test pattern strips used for gauging a printer's adherence to value. This pattern was taken apart and using a computer, repeated as an element to build a terrain of shifting value and size. This formed the base of what would be a pyramid that travels about outward and inward visually.
In regards to the Walkabout title, this appears to contain a reference to a spiritual journey as an important aspect of the experience. Commenting on this, its interesting to get at the root of what these journeys are. Merriam-Webster defines the noun "...as an occasional interruption of regular work", with the only mention of "spiritual journey" coming in a usage example from a latter-day travel writer. To white employers, this urge to depart without notice (and reappear just as suddenly) was seen as something inherent in the aboriginal nature, but the reasons may be more mundane" - wiki
In this type of drawing I have increasingly been pushing for this idea of what could be a 'spiritual' - or at least a 'humanistic' form. A form spawned from the the more grounded or mundane coupled with a tiered experimental process and sense of mutability than anything coherently labeled 'spiritual'. This is a self-defined system of such that creates its own kind of open and meditative space.
