Time that flows, turns and stands still

The present is supposed to be a point. I don't experience it that way.

It stretches, contracts, circles back. Sometimes a few seconds hold more than an hour. Sometimes whole periods disappear almost without a trace. That sense of time changing shape is where this series began.

Several works began with the same photograph and then moved in different directions. Emerald Shift and Soft Surge share the same source image, but colour changes the experience completely. To me, one is spring: fresh and new, the way a small child sees. The other is warm, heavy, seductive, almost enveloping. Neither is the original version. They are two different presents made from the same moment.

Suspension and Held Breath also come from one image. One turns, the other stops. In The Block of Now, four states sit side by side: swirl, movement, rings, stillness. There is no fixed direction through them. What looks like chaos becoming order can just as easily be order beginning to move.

That is one reason I don't give the works a fixed orientation. They can hang in any direction. Turn one and gravity changes. Something that was falling begins to rise. A form that felt settled starts to move again.

I like that instability. A photograph usually fixes a fraction of a second. Here, I use that frozen moment to make something less fixed.