Aria (2024) is an extraordinarily chaotic composition of still lives and animals that have been abstracted and transformed into more singular dimensional planes through lines and solid blocks of colour. The entire composition is black and white and this allows for the viewer to see the foundational forms of the still life rather than its detail pushing us to the instability of the work and to see them and not to see at various positions of the work.
The forms within the work go from geometrical to rounded with washes of occasional pigment against the more empty areas of the composition. Perhaps they could be the snout of an animal or the contour of the animal’s figure- however, these are not revealed and are left for the viewer to decide. The images that we make from this, however, fracture and we are again searching the work creating new ideas of what they might be adding to the energy of the work.