“If you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be—unutterably—contained in what has been uttered”
2025
If you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be—unutterably—contained in what has been uttered is a statement by
The collages, drawings float between abstraction and representation, failing to be clear but at the same time revealing themselves to be perfectly obvious. The experimental process-led approach is foregrounded but their making order remains unclear. They are unsettled.
Their starting point was flowers. But not those freshly gathered, rather the ones put to use at “the precise spot” where someone has died or been killed. Flowers that, of course, are an attempt to utter the unutterable. However, they too are delicate markers of a site and a moment that is refused entry into the past – a space thats ‘haunted’.
These drawing focus on the flowers, the obliquoe slogans, that signal limbo.
Sugar paper, Somerset and Heritage papers, found papers and chalk pastel.
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