Salt and Nylon – 2015
Sevenoaks Gallery, Kent, England.
Inviting Aurora was inspired by a reaction to the word ‘Edgelands’. ‘Edgelands’ attempts to refer to a place that is both familiar, yet unknown, an interfacial interzone that denotes a presence in the world but nobody knows exactly where this place starts and/or ends; “a place of possibility, mystery, beauty” (Farley and Simmons).
Many philosophers attempt to dispel uncanny appearances in all aspects of life but have never totally effaced the idea of mystery. Undoubtedly we can deny any mysterious happenings, but experiencing the metaphysical mystery of being in a world at all keeps the wide horizon of existence open, and gives us a sense of living in an immeasurable vastness of unstoppable learning and ongoing discoveries.
Inviting Aurora is a work that tackles the notion of forms such as, what makes a form? At certain instances, forms become abstract notions of the truth, illusions of a utopian entity. Appearances become deceitful and nobody dares to ask what lies beneath the form. However, what is the form? And where is the form? Thus, this work would aim to symbolize the mystery in defining geographical boundaries, that uncertainty that goes along with finding overlapping characteristics that make up an ‘edgeland’.