From the Folio
2014
I had visited the Turner exhibition at the AGSA last year and was particularly captivated by Turner’s skies and how they eventually merged with the horizon making the division between land and sky unclear. He poured so much emotion and feeling into his skies. This year I visited the studio of Hans Heysen, who was a master of water colour landscape painting and very inspiring to me.
I played with water colour a lot whilst exploring ideas of how to represent my feelings about the sky. I tried using a clock with a calendar but I thought that detracted from the whole point of what was important. That represented literally what I had been doing for the month but that was not the point. The point was to communicate the awesomeness of the sky between our diurnal existence. I decided to try and use the pages of a diary to superimpose my pictures of the sky onto.
This was a turning point for me, as I tore the page of a diary to give the edges an uneven finish I suddenly realized I had just torn a hole in the day and that is where I could observe the sky from! So, quite literally here was the thing: Tearing a space out of each day, to enjoy the sky, making space to push aside other responsibilities and simply become an observer.
My final presentation contains the 30 days of April with their corresponding skies set into the space made in each page from a diary.