FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES (2020)
208cm x 168cm
charcoal on paper
The raw physicality, size, conceptual underpinning and command of materials demands prolong engagement with this drawing.
Be fearless, it is not a passive view.
Embedded throughout this piece are references to religious and iconographic imagery, contemporary, classical and ancient artefacts and renaissance equine symbolism.
It tips the scales toward Cubist strategies and Neo-Expressionism and the title of the work, Finite and Infinite Games, riffs on contrasts between rule-bound and fluid generative ideals.
There is tension in this work; it sits between order and chaos. It does not seek resolution but thrives in the unresolved – an invitation to perpetual inquiry.
The scale of drawing in Finite and Infinte Games is large. The work also functions as a palimpsest where historical and stylistic collide in a single non linear space.