Forty Four , 2020
59.4 x 84.1 cm (h x w)
Pencil and gold leaf on paper

Reality is a great woven cloth or tapestry, with each strand a timeline or individual life. I have taken the subject of my daily walk. Each walk is like a life in miniature.

I have always thought that when you go for a trip it is like a miniature life. You go away, feel that your journey is filled with infinite possibilities, like when you view your life ahead as a teenager. You experience a few things and then your trip is over sooner than you would want. In the same way each walk is a life in miniature as is each day. Perhaps life itself is just one day of some greater reality and all the lives join to create a year. These images of woven reality are like the perspective paintings I made when I was younger. I wanted to show life as some great unfolding panorama of different experiences and times that combine to create the truth.

Ausgestellt von

Ben Uri Research Unit

Mehr von Ben Uri Research Unit

Flautino: Figure from the Commedia dell’Arte , 1985
29.3 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
Oil Paint and Collage
Ben Uri Research Unit
Quilted Jacket , c. 1980
25.4 x 20.3 cm (h x w)
Ink and Watercolour
Ben Uri Research Unit
Canape , c. 1980
25.4 x 20.3 cm (h x w)
Ink and Watercolour
Ben Uri Research Unit
La Vache , 1976
20.3 x 25.4 cm (h x w)
Oil on Canvas Panel
Ben Uri Research Unit
The View from Permeke’s Studio , 1974
61 x 71.1 cm (h x w)
Oil on canvas
Ben Uri Research Unit