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The Memory series 1984-85.
I used the Wolf and Nubis (the Egyptian God of Death) to symbolize danger and an awareness of mortality, the inevitability of destiny.
My curiosity about emotions, of power and completeness felt during the creative process were bought into focus by the psychological Theory of Separation. In 1984 I became interested in visualizing the moment when the omnipotent infant realizes separation from, and total dependancy on their carer. Simple details like the weave of cloth are enormously remembered.
This theory might
be pertainent to an artist's desire to create - to reclaim this euphoric power
over the material world. In these paintings the memory of separation is depicted
as a flashback, a glimpse through layers of consciousness to something distantly
recollected. I developed a different technique of using primary colour covered
with white on unstretched canvas and then scraping it down to give a distressed
effect like skeins of memory.
AxH 1996
Thou
shalt find on the left of the House of Hades a Well-spring
And
by the side thereof standing a white cypress.
To this well-spring approach not near.
But thou shall find another by the Lake of Memory,
Cold Water flowing forth, and there are Guardians before it,
Say: ' I am a child of Earth and of starry Heaven;
But my race is of Heaven. This ye know yourselves.
And lo, I am parched with thirst and I perish.
Give me quickly
The cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory'.
And of themselves they will give thee to drink
from the holy well-spring,
and thereafter among the other heroes thou shall have lordship
Happy and blessed one, though shalt be god instead of immortal.
Early Greek Orphic
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