Odyssey
Figures In Wood
Bronzes
Galician Shadows
Tableau No.1. (detail) Wood and photographic technique.
240 x 210cms. 1995
Tableau No.1. Wood and photographic technique.
240 x 210cms. 1995
Tableau No.4. Wood and photographic technique.
240 x 210cms. 1995
A series of photographs taken during a visit to Poland in 1993 culminated in the series “At the Edge of Centuries”. Portraits of a Polish cousin, architectural details of doorways in Krakow, the local parish church in Kobylanka village and various wooden houses formed the basis of a series of large panels, some of which are 240 x 210cm in size. Photocopied images are impressed into the wood and give the effect of the image being pushed back through the generations. There is a feeling of pattern, repetition and rhythm, almost as if there is a heart beating subliminally behind it all. It is the rhythm that signals the existence of life and the regularity of the pulse that can signal well being or foreshadow ill health. Some of the panels are made up of planks placed side by side and interwoven vertically. Others use long planks of ancient black bog oak which constantly shrink and warp having been released from their watery grave after thousands of years. The ghostly figure which dominates the panels acts as a link through the generations, through the centuries. Its role is to bear witness, to draw the viewer, to come forward, to create a presence in order to represent the past.
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