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Drawings in four dimensions
By: Patricia Wilson
'Time to think'
I find myself returning to a dream that I had many years ago, whose meaning escapes me, but which was so 'pure' that perhaps it's now time to excavate it a little.
In the dream I see a flat beach with flat, clear waves running in and receding. And then there is one wave that rises to a perfect peak, curls, and crystallises.
Patricia Wilson
I'm a visual artist with a special interest in digital media, although I work across all media to achieve my aims. I've received two commissions for public large-scale digital work this year, and am looking forward to a period of research that this blog will document.
I'm the curator for the Harbour Arm Gallery (adjacent to the new Turner Contemporary Gallery) in Margate. Located on the Pier the Harbour Gallery offers a for-hire exhibition and research space for artists of all kinds. I also curate in alternative spaces: most recent, a show of womens art in 3 churches in Canterbury.
# 3 [7 November 2011]
I found this comment by Paul Valery (1933), which seems so resonant today:
'Never has there been such a profound and rapid transformation...the whole world... appropriated, even the most distant events known instantly...'
and
'The number and importance of innovations introduced in so few years in the human universe has almost abolished any possibility of comparison between the way things were fifty years ago and the way they are now'
He was speaking of the huge rift in intellectual thought between the old comfortable mechanistic view of the world, and the deep uncertainty caused by recent discoveries in physics, chemistry and mathematics.
Today we experience change as rapid, necessary (if we are to believe those who will benefit from it) and inevitable.
We didn't have to become digital. Yes - it has freed us to communicate, but at what price?
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# 2 [5 November 2011]
A frustrating week where I haven't had time to think. But my work is up, and Thursday I'm off to the west for a few days: time to re-think, and re-charge.
Great combination of work in the Beta show: I'm very pleased to be a part of it
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# 1 [30 October 2011]
Endings and Beginnings
Have taken down 'VESSEL' from the Canterbury churches today. It was a delicately subversive show that I'd like to take on elsewhere. Great artists - I look forward to collaborating with them again.
Tomorrow I take the initial work of Drawing in Four Dimensions to Kaleidoscope Gallery in Sevenoaks to set up a placeholder for work that will build and develop in situ for the duration of the Exhibition: Beta (and, of course, beyond that). The exhibition runs until January 7th: I wonder what it will look like at the end of that period, and where I will have 'travelled'!
PV 3rd Nov 6-8pm
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