A Series of one Liners (recto / verso), 2024
94cm W x 94cm H
Embroidery canvas, yarn
Photo Credit: Dan Weill
A Series of One Liners is part of a larger series of work titled c0de to Home, which began in 2023, when I started to recall the impact of the colour that I grew-up around in my childhood home. In this work I negate the use of colour to work with the term ‘black and white thinking’. A psychologist would refer to it as thinking in absolutes, which can keep an individual from seeing life the way it really is, full of complexity and uncertainty.
Similar to my Love by Proxy Diagrammatic Drawings, which are made-up of triangulated patterns that I draw while slowly-processing matters, this artwork is based on a continuous line drawing puzzle, usually made-up of 5 triangles and 10 edges, but here, it is never complete. Displaying both sides of the embroidery canvas, I wanted to emphasise that the notion of a home can be a complex thing to figure, if not an elusive thing that can be subject to change.
During the night cycle of a Virtual Reality exhibition titled We Are Only Partly Real, 2025, the work slowly rotates, turning the series upside down.
We Are Only Partly Real, 2025
Images taken from a Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition in conversation with the artist Steve Dutton, commissioned by Spike Island, in partnership with Stephen Gray and funded by the University of Bristol’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Award.
VR Credit: Stephen Gray