Blackboard Paintings

Sculpture Series – ‘ Shelf ’

The chalk drawing for the ‘Shelf’ works have a narrative element which explores another element of memory soon to diasappear from the lexicon – the blackboard. Half removed phrases, duster trails, a teachers personalized script.

The words and phrases are often oxymorons or paradoxes, and we can effectively recontextualize the objects by using them as elements of a visual vocabulary, where ‘meaning’ moves from the descriptive to the allegorical.

The act of annunciating the sentence as we move our eye from image to object seeks to prompt a re-evaluation of the initial aesthetic response, and to ponder the nature of the objects as both active grammatical elements, and as symbols. Images which have a certain passivity may achieve a new dynamic as they assume a role in the ‘theatre’ of the picture.

''Hibiscus'    Chalk and Oil on canvas   60 x 80 cm

 'Constant Variable'  Acrylic, Wood Shelf, Various Objects  on Canvas  80 X 60 cm

  'Because of Descartes'  Acrylic, Wood Shelf, Various Objects  on Canvas  60 X 80 cm

  'Dreaming Precisely'  Acrylic, Wood Shelf, Various Objects  on Canvas  60 X 80 cm

'Reverently Irreverent'  Acrylic, Wood Shelf, Various Objects  on Canvas  60 X 80 cm