Strange Brew

Strange Brew (2018) 60.5 x 40.5 x 30cm Enamel paint on MDF, twig and clay pendant. Strange Brew is part of ongoing series of wall-mounted sculptures in tablet form. Envisaged as a portal, or window to another state of consciousness, the work is inspired by votive objects, sacred geometry and ritual artefacts. Created by methodically layering brightly coloured enamel paint, I associate the process of creating the vivid pattern upon the surface with a form of meditative exercise. Though a simple repeated shape, the scattering circles evoke colliding particles, bubbles or the impact craters of the moon. My hope is that the suspended clay disk could be read as a shamanic charm or hypnotist’s pendant, and its gentle rotational movements perhaps evocative of lunar cycles and distant cosmic movements.