Moral Divide

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Oil on linen
84" x 63"

In Moral Divide for example the artist manages to incorporate the sensation of game-like space being co-habituated by floating globe-like structures. Their sieve-like openings allow us to peer within each sphere, into a private domain. Depictions of books, gravityless, hint at the insinuation of culture gone mad, of rationality now viewed as irrelevant and incidental as tumbleweeds whirling through ghost towns of yore, while natural laws are held in abeyance. This is a tough work, as it seems to be intent in depicting interior frames mind, caught adrift. It is work, which welcomes uncertainty and approves of unpredictability. It is a topsy-turvy, gravity-less world, which is depicted. The sensations of floating, separating, being broken up in pieces held aloft by womb-like yet permeable membranes, evoke the anxiety-ridden condition of being adrift in an ocean of time-space. This is depicted as exhilarating on one level yet one is clearly open in terms of being seen, open to the judgments of others.

- D.F. Coleman