Original artwork description:

This work features motifs theories from the Translation Series of paintings, developed during as the outcome of a Fine Art Masters Degree at ARU Cambridge School of Art.
This work is the most expressive in form as well as the closest to the idea of departure as a theory for the content. These images explore how a narrative image can be coded and decoded in different ways to give the opportunity of a reading or re-reading where the idea of fidelity to the original intention is questioned. The literary reference is stated in the title with the associated themes and there are visual references to a contemporary tragic event at Stubby Lee Park in Bacup, Lancashire, UK. which for the viewer may or mayn't correspond thematically. Content and meaning is further persude through a visual dialogue with previous works in the series (These then have a mixture of contextual references which play a role in reading or decoding the image relative to me the artist which is intentionally arbitrary, the image still works without this context for you the viewer). The balance of form and content is an experiment in values where a bad translation or decoding may be more successful than a faithful one? Hopefully the drama unfolds in a continually unique way, i.e. a place for conjecture.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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