CROSSING RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland | Photos Denis Mortell
The verb crossing indicates a movement from here to there, back and forth. It is transitionary like nature and of being. In Crossing I explore the abstract expressive possibilities of the road in contemporary culture as a fertile source for representing the temporal structure of our lives. Using the idea of ‘The Moving Observer’ leads us to think of time as locations in a landscape. As the observer ‘passes’ these locations so we are led to think of the observer’s motion as the ‘passage’ of time and of the distance between the observer and those locations in the landscape as the ‘amount’ of time ‘passed’..."

Excavation 7 (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Frequency 1 (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Juncture (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Excavation 6 (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Excavation 8 (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Trajectory (2005), oil on canvas, 90x270cm

Freeway sketchbook drawing (2004), ink on paper 20x30cm

Freeway sketchbook drawing (2004), ink on paper 20x30cm

Viscera 3 (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Viscera 5 (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Wave (2005), oil on canvas, 200x240cm

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view
