Shot in 2015, an abstraction of wild grasses becomes synonymous with the marks made by action painters and abstract expressionists; the ossified tissue of artist's concerned with the gestural, their movements fixed in paint.
'Gestures Of The Eye Before The Hand' is the revision of an earlier photography that dictates a an equally monochrome oil painting made in 2024. Borrowing the language of action painting and that of photography's positive and negative, there becomes an interrogation of mediums, vision, and movement. Can the eye be gestural? is it possible for an observation to be a gesture in itself? And what of the time between what the eye sees and the mark made? Must it be milliseconds, or perhaps can it be measured more extensively in hours, days, and years?
the eye perceives more swiftly than the hand can draw
Walter Benjamin, 1935
