LEARNING CURVE

exhibition of new work, yard gallery, london 2002

An encounter with algebra is the starting point for many of these works. The revelation of an equation plotted and lined. To draw the line requires each co-ordinate to be joined, but this in itself never does justice to the curve. Only by letting the hand freely sweep with the curve does the line approach its course and suggest the infinite progress of the equation.

The grid as subject with its rigid cells endlessly repeated, has often been explored. But these qualities are now loosened, untied or seeping, the brushstrokes merely echoing the grid.

And as for the net, what is it but a floating grid? Here its co-ordinates are adrift in the current that shifts its form.