Original artwork description:

This painting explores various ideas associated with travel; landscape; plaids; stripes; lost generations and layering of history. These layers of paint that have been laid on top of one another, rubbed back, erased, sanded back, painted over and more seek to reveal the fragility of information, how easy this can be obscured, lost, hidden, weathered, erased etc.

This has been further highlighted by the obscured writing of a thought inscribed on the first layer of acrylic:

'Sometimes I wonder how different the world might have been had European countries not found the New World and subjugated the North, Central and South Americans into slavery and indentured contracts leading to a loss of wisdom and knowledge'.

These words highlight how different the world might have been had things been so different when Europeans circum-navigated the world, seeking new lands and trade routes. Important to remember the lost knowledge and wisdom of those gone in the space of a short timespan due to disease, control, slavery etc. and the destruction of their books/ codexes/ ancient ones.

The fragility of knowledge and life.

[This painting was originally an entry for the Evolver magazine cover prize]

Professionally framed by Fine Art and Framing in Taunton, UK.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint on Paper

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