What Strange Things Are These
2021
Overall size including frame: 80cms x 100cms
Acrylic paint, coloured pencil and balsa wood on heavyweight handmade paper set in a wide white mount and enclosed in a white painted timber frame.
This is entirely of itself, and there is no deliberate or conscious external reference, so it may be considered ‘abstract' by definition.
It is concerned with surface dynamics, and two-dimensional tensions within a rectangle, and has much to do with a sense of ambiguity and asymmetry.
As is increasingly the case these days, visual art is becoming preoccupied with often transient, circumscribed political and ideological issues.
I have no interest in these things - for me, the formal challenges of image making are sufficient and enduring.
‘I think the essential nature of modern art is it’s being secular, it’s being done by an individual to satisfy his own inner deepest sense of integrity.
It’s the first art that doesn’t work on tribal understanding.’
Robert Motherwell 1915-1991
George Taylor
October 2023
