Marsh of Sleep, Limited Edition Prints: 10
Size: 40 x 50 cm
Printed with archival pigmented inks on rag paper. It is a digital Giclee process, printed in Nelson.

"Listening to an interview by some scientist on the National radio one day, it was inspiring to hear that matter can never be completely destroyed. That if blown apart it will be rearranged in some form or another. It doesn't bear thinking where all these particles originally came from. No beginning, no end. That doesn't really matter. Too hard to contemplate. So I set out to explore some of these thoughts. A pretty silly idea to try and capture the impermanence of everything."

"So what we have here is a series of landscapes; snapshots of our past world and universe. Also a look at our future. Back to molten rock again. Extreme global warming. I always liked Jean Dubuffet's ‘Texturology’ series of paintings. Why not paint the very soil you stand on instead of the whole landscape. A close up look at teeming matter itself."

"I have incorporated many elements in these images. Peeling paint patterns, graffiti, rusty scratches on steel containers. Cracks on rocks, moss, pitted dents on various objects close to my environment. Mostly scars. Just like the scars and pock marks on the surface of our moon. Then I have drawn more scratches and lines of my own indicating possible rivers of lava or left over trails of swirling worlds. On another level these are marks and patterns we make through our travels in life. Everything matters and everything is everything. These prints show a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing to mass."