RISKS. 2020-ongoing
The Risks series emerged from meditating on the writings and life of French psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle, first explored within the Gently Savage narrative, presented at Art Porters Gallery in 2022. How does one articulate non-linear impact of chaos and time in a life? How does one assess the risks taken and left behind? What is decay in light of hindsight and foresight?
Each of the works within the Risk series begins with a digital capture of botanicals—be it a time-lapse video of a flower arrangement, or gathered digital images of flowers—which are then printed, reshuffled, destroyed and re-composed into a new image. Within the rumbled images are quotes from literary works—initial inspirations for each new compositions—obscured into abstracted charcoal brushworks.
This series troubles the gestures first introduced in Chasing Flowers (2016). In the former series, still-lives are captured in a durational drawings that begins from arrangement and ends at the complete wilting of a flower arrangement. What one learns is that these botanical memento moris are not still at all, as the notion of “still-life” suggests. Flower Flights (2019) continues the earlier explorations by departing from visual and material stasis, and works explored in False Truths (2020) intervenes and interrupts with technology, AI, and politics. Risks uses time distortion as visual vocabulary, where the disarray offers only fragments of what was once alive and present.
