Cardinal Cabin


NOWhere
As a subject for my paintings I choose particular places that throughout time gradually lose their purpose and identity, becoming strange uninhabitable lands. They are abandoned remnants that can be better described as hinterlands that slip from our daily conscious and conclude in (in-) visible blemished absences in our surroundings. Expendable and worthless, they are at once everywhere and nowhere, subsisting in existence.

I perceive such places to possess otherworldly beauty rather than perceiving them to be classically beautiful. This then presents the opportunity to question ideas about beauty utilising traditional philosophical idioms in a bid to challenge perception and understanding. While the notion that such places suggest ‘otherworldly’ qualities, imparts liberty to create a language insinuating fantasy, and therefore simultaneously purporting them into a realm of ethereal autonomous existence; transcending the point where the ‘nowhere’ becomes ‘now-here’.

My aim is to capture the intimate appreciation of their transience, rescuing them for eternity, while challenging assumptions and providing an alternative experience to people’s norm.