My multi- media practice explores themes of transience and fragility through the intangible ghostly nature of light or the delicacy of material.
Past works have used weathered, worn and pierced surfaces which combine with the play of natural or projected light to present glimpses of detail or fragments
of intricate, delicate pattern. Fluctuations in light levels enhance the moment of engagement creating a sense of immediacy and reinforcing the transient nature of the experience.
The work may play on a past encounter where the presented form acts as a touchstone or vessel of personal experience thus evidencing a fleeting moment in time or it may explore the complex relationships between pattern, meaning, image and site and the effects of re-presentation or multiple interpretations.
Reality and artifice, absence and presence act to enforce a sense of mortality which resonates through my work.
A R T I S T
KAREN GAZEY