HADYN WILSON
September 3rd - September 14th
'Sentient Matters and other paintings'
The paintings in this exhibition represent an ongoing interest in how we connect to our environment and what sort a of magic we can conjure from that relationship. We often ask ourselves 'where does reality begin and end?' and it would seem that even something as transitory and ephemeral as a thought has as much validity as an object in the world as a vase or a brick wall, as contemporary ideas in physics testify.
Formally, the works depict a figure and another element (landscape, object, etc) that seeks to create a single poetic statement where the combination of the two elements assert themselves as one object or where the emotional response to the image becomes the object in the painting. This subtle distinction is one that requires the complicit intention of the viewer in understanding how these pictures work.
In a sense
they are narrative driven and theatrical compositions that have their
genesis in nineteenth century symbolism but also acknowledge aspects of
film culture. The narrative content relates predominately to environment
and our social, emotional and physiological relationship with it.
Hadyn Wilson 2003
