Future perfect
Photographic ink of differing lightfastness on photo paper, ongoing series, 2015 -
21cm x 29.7cm each
Future perfect is a series of paintings made using photographic retouching inks with differing states of lightfastness. The colours are individually named but not where the overlap creates new colours. Dated when the painting is initially made, the colours will be further dated as each colour gradually fades away over different times.
The grammatical term future perfect is most commonly used to describe an action that will have happened or will be finished by a specific point in the future - this work will be completed tomorrow. Both countering and echoing photography in the age of digitalization, different possible states of the work will occur. Time forms the work, freeing colour from the material that holds sway over it.
Installation at 3 different nights, recurring at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Photographic ink of differing lightfastness on photo paper, ongoing series, 2015 -
21cm x 29.7cm each
Future perfect is a series of paintings made using photographic retouching inks with differing states of lightfastness. The colours are individually named but not where the overlap creates new colours. Dated when the painting is initially made, the colours will be further dated as each colour gradually fades away over different times.
The grammatical term future perfect is most commonly used to describe an action that will have happened or will be finished by a specific point in the future - this work will be completed tomorrow. Both countering and echoing photography in the age of digitalization, different possible states of the work will occur. Time forms the work, freeing colour from the material that holds sway over it.
Installation at 3 different nights, recurring at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
