Text from IMPERMANENCE at The Good Rice, 23rd of January 2025
Attempting to define the boundaries of natural and artificial in the generalised viewer's perception of materials and forms, with a focus on the observing of art and the participation of mundane life exposes, then, an existing conversation which ultimately parallels nature and the natural with purity. This conversation seemingly works on the basis of maintaining that the application of one's self to Earth, to almost any degree, is a debasement of a supposedly pure square one in human evolution. Shower Hair Study, at that stage, becomes wholly reliant on, as well as a spectator of mutuality between the artist and the viewer: if societal construct is artificial, this work is an entirely artificial vice-versa of subtle nods which have historically reinforced the Old Master, painterly archetypes of the art industry.