Hyper-Submersible Egg-Yolk Sun
Hyper-Submersible Egg-yolk Sun is an Installation work consisting of abstract oil paintings on raw calico and a prose-poem shown as a four-piece poster and as fragmented wall texts done in willow charcoal.
The installation concerns itself with the permeable boundaries of identity; how names and forms dissolve under the pressure of observation. On the bus our everyday modes of attention are strained; we enter a liminal relationship with the exterior world. Working through memory, imagination and speculation, I attempt to track this bus-hedge ecology; how natural forms are distorted, transposed and reflected in the bus window. Raw calico, willow charcoal and thick oil paint collide, and spread themselves across the space. As I work, forms and marks take on a life of their own; by painting quickly, the materials take on new agency, never wholly under my control. Hedges are in constant transit from seed to husk; they map their experience through branches, flowers, leaves, and rings.
Alongside the paintings, charcoal text appears throughout the space, becoming another form of accumulated archive. Together, the paintings and text work to influence and change one another; they mimic the form of the bus and hedge; parallel bodies in constant contact, mutually constructed entities, each with their own agency, confined to a single route.
