Whither Now (2016-ongoing)
These marks are meant to guide. In their immediacy they evoke a crude pre-textual language and color palette that speak to early cave markings and invoke something primal. Their meaning is evident –keep ‘straight’, turn, not this way – or should be.
Isolated from the landscape, these waymarks transcend their literal function and reveal something human and curious. Gesture, the hand of an unknown painter(s), reveals itself. The supports chosen for these marks, perceived as permanent and fixed, prove fragile. The marks are ravaged by time and nature. The author W.H. Auden was fascinated with erosion as predetermined by existing weakness in the original rock. He felt this to be a human as well as a mineral truth: “we are defined by our flaws as much as by our substance”. I am drawn to the flaw. These photographs of those marks are akin to portraits: time, particularity and ultimately, impermanence become apparent.