Hybrid View
The new paintings are constructed quite differently than the paintings from both the Alternate Tracking Exhibit at the Bemis, and the Simultaneous Contrast Exhibit at Jan Weiner’s. The new paintings and prints have a compressed decision making process -the field and the image forms are established simultaneously. Simultaneous modalities- these modalities offer both temporal and conceptual constructs of time and relative movement. The suspended pendulum forms depicted in such works as Side-Swipe Clangor, transform into the stemmed elliptical form language that actually propels the images in the new paintings; morphing into chain reactions or continuous loops, becoming methods of editing adjacent relationships.Throughout the Hybrid View Exhibition every work is constructed as sequential imagery, to be read in real time from right to left or left to right and top to bottom. In fact the whole exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum was conceived as a progressive horizontal sequence; it is about time framing devices that emphasize the notion of movement and slippage in a filmic sense; dividing the surface into various zones(cells) that reinforce the temporal modality of the color relationships, slowing down or accelerating, but also reinforcing the continuum. The continuum; as in the time compression of the computer, as in particle accelerators -reflected mirror images,an alternative existence, shifts and breaks in the anomaly of the motif, circuit overload. The elliptical motifs with their directional tracks become timelines in some musical score - systems to be connected or disconnected and read. The motif being the ontological surrogate for time measured, time experienced, time as a cultural construct. Time-space conception for Australia’s Aboriginal people was embedded in their songlines, passed down through generations as a linguistic reference, the whole of Australia could be read as a musical tour guide, their songs were their title deeds to the territory, directional lines that mapped and gave direction to their journey.













