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ZOE CROSSE |
GENERAL STATEMENT |
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HOMEPAGE - General statement Miscellaneous Drawings
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'Deportment Class' 1480mm x 980mm oil & resin on canvas 2009 My paintings evolve out of a constant search for an ideal symbiosis
between form and content they seem to be tinged with a sense of loss and
nostalgia and have been derived from tangents in and around identity. The process is often concerned with chaos, chance and disruption; It
is eclectic and seems to be what can only be described as rhizomatous[1];
By employing a variety of processes
such as under painting; the use of layers of glazes and resins, which at
times dissolve and bleed into other images, the
subject becomes dissipated and the viewer is left to fill in the gaps;
through gaps in the image the process can sometimes be revealed; by
deliberately employing
techniques which rely on chance,
disruption, destruction and chaos, new possibilities are created for
each image ... this process relates to my interest in Foucault’s
writings. Most often the
paint’s visceral and autonomous qualities battle for supremacy over the
subject; yet only when the two find that illusive harmony, a new and more real truth can emerge, a
symbiotic union, and as if by chance a painting will seem complete. There can
never be a predicted outcome
when deliberate, controlled disruption is employed. At times only
nothing remains! The image is the foundation or the inherent structure
which allows for the paint and myself to explore a million possibilities.
Some images are repeated just to see how many ways the painting process
will affect them. Each project is about discovering what the paint can do for me, this
keeps my relationship with paint very alive. Sometimes it seems it is the
paint that dictates, one must remain in a state of aware unawareness to
make the most of the fleeting moments of inspiration. The paint is always
trying to tell me something. At
times it would appear that mistakes are the mother of invention. Research leads me to collect numerous images from
history books, art books, magazines, the net, drawings and photos.
These are appropriated and then used
as a 'coat hanger', i.e. a structure on which to hang a new
interpretation or new combination of signifiers. My work often refers to
history and my research into it. Inspiration also comes from novels and
philosophy: Therefore meaning in my work is always latently inherent, and
is mostly linked to my historical and philosophical research into ideas of
other, loss and identity as an
existentialist concern . [1] Rhizome; a thick underground horizontal stem that produces roots and has shoots that develop into new plants.   |
