'Kiss Me Deadly'
Gallery Baton, Seoul, March 11 - April 11, 2015
Continued...
Through the loss of the usual clear contrast and the general
indistinctness the paintings evoke I want to suggest residual memory
traces. Something buried or suppressed is rising from the depth or
fading away. Visually, I want to force a less structured kind
of
seeing, a semi-blinding, such as we experience at twilight.
Without
radiant and ambient light, contrasts cannot be easily perceived, and
when there is a paucity of adequate visual information we
must draw
more on our imagination. Fleetingly presented or vague images
suggest
liquidity circulating at the heart of reality. Our vision
moves
freely, spontaneously, back and forth, between dream and reality, fact
and fantasy. This in-betweeen-ness or visual ambiguity is an
evanescence in the mind that is the consequence of the inability to
make clear visual distinctions. It can be understood to cause
confusion, deficit, lack or absence, but it can also imply
potentiality. A sense of flux and process has the effect of
de-polarizing, bringing about the coincidence of two seemingly
different poles. As a result, it stages the conditions that make change
possible.