Original artwork description:

This work features an observed scene of Arlesey Train Station on the London Peterborough line in the South East of the UK. A figure is lent on a walkway support presumably waiting for a train to arrive at the station, to meet someone or to depart is not clear. The side of the track that the platform that the man stands on is departing London heading North. There are ordinary embellishments to the station such as a grit box surveillance camera information or instruction notice/sign. What is remarkable is the sky and the play of light on surfaces as well as the composition bisected by the concrete diagonal of the stairway also where the train tracks should be there is a parody of a Hockney swimming pool. Like others in this series the viewer is invited to decode/recode and explore narratives, aesthetics references and reminiscences. The artist therefore invites the audience into a game of conjecture where assumptions associations beliefs and speculation are brought into question in order that a visual translation is made, where latency fidelity correspondence and departure are negotiated. The image in this way is processed into personal meaning. Visual references include J. W. M. Turner skies, David Hockney composition and 1960s picture spaces, Boyle Family signifiers of authenticity and Wayne Thiebaud light, Harland Miller texture and nostalgia and the challenge to banality by Narbi Price.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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