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Sand Series" "The visual simplicity of the works at this time was fundamental to my visual needs and philosophy which came from my earlier reading of books such as "The Cloud of Unknowing" and more recently reading John Cage, Joseph Bueys, Rauchenberg, Klaus Rinke and others. It wasn't until the early 90's after many years of investigating other creative possibilities and then creating paintings of a similar simplicity that I realised how important the "Sand Series" had been. How it successfully pulled together all previous experiments, resolved the issue concerning external physical influences upon the work and how it was the last artwork created by me alone before travelling off into Art Games. The questions/problems/issues that this project threw up are many, for example the length of shadows because of the height of the sun, the strength and duration of sunlight, the daily change in the sands quality and surface pattern because of rain, wind or tide movement. They are questions that have to be considered and addressed to successfully investigate the creative visual potential of a few blades of grass against a background of sand." |
