Untitled II

Original Painting
Exterior Eggshell, Acrylic and Genuine 24ct Gold on Canvas
Framed
60cm
2019

The Untitled series is concerned with the human need to measure, understand and conquer the existential mysteries of the universe, which we are intrinsically a part, showing the folly yet importance of such endeavours.

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” John Lubbock

Adopting the psychological phenomena of Pareidolia and Apophenia, the experience of seeing pattern in random or meaningless data, then mixing this with the Mathematical Golden Ratio expressed as a geometric grid highlights that indistinct stimuli represented by the clouds can be forced to be perceived as significant.