Light | fall

There is a space where abstraction, nature, beauty and mystery intersect. That’s where the camera and I go looking. These works are mostly from my first solo exhibition - which is hanging in limbo in a wonderful gallery in Auckland [fhegalleries.co.nz] - which remains subject to COVID lockdown. No one has seen them in person. The exhibition is called Light|fall. It starts as photography and ends up in three distant places. Untitled works 3,4,5 and 6 explore the intersection of light, land and something else. The instance of the photograph becomes something made, towards painting. They are placeless and unspecific, each atmospherically different. The context and mood are left to you. Someone thought they were “memories of journeys long forgotten.” As abstractions, they pare back to what I see as the crux of the matter. These are 1mx1.5m. Lightboxes 1,2,3 and 4 are intersections that are broadened by the architecture of the pieces. Different light is in and around the works. The images are fragments of a bigger picture. These are 50x50x10 acrylic lightboxes, illuminated on all sides. I designed these. Untitled 1 is an earlier image. The gallery experimented with the work in the Auckland Art Fair and it promptly sold out. It was the precursor to the invitation for the solo show. “ I only need black and white to say what I have to say. It is a matter of light and dark”. [ McCahon, Colin, “Colin McCahon, A Survey Exhibition, page 26, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand