LITTLE CORPSES I

LITTLE CORPSES I, 2016 (MUSEUM GLASS AND BLACK LACQUER BOX FRAME)
500 X 500 mm   (700mm x 700mm FRAMED)
Oil and Swarovski crystals on  C-type print, facemount glossy plexi / alu-dibond 2+3 mm.M 

The figure in "Little corpses 1" appears to be stuck between two opposing states: the intense desire to ascend and the realisation that the only way to ensure ‘heaven’ would be to withdraw from this world. The work utilises the overlapping of time, place and personal memory. AD-Reflex explores the uniquely human desire to apply order to chaos and the control that which ultimately cannot be controlled.

The opulent Neo-Baroque surface is a bizarre celebration of the uncertainties of the future, embracing the unknowable consequences of ‘process’,  and simultaneously, how we engage with data, information and transform it into knowledge. AD-Reflex constantly undermines familiar systems of classification and distorts differentiated meaning. The painterly elements on DIASEC are an unexpected example of how the artists creatively archive within and without what we perceive to be a certainty.  The viewer cannot always rely what constitutes fact or fiction, which is an outcome of toiling work in the studio and which was transformed and disrupted.  

The original ‘photographic traces’ bubbling underneath the surface of the Diasec was constantly altered with several photo-manipulation software techniques, the physical freezing of objects in ice (which are then re-photographed in a studio), painting and Swarovski crystals.