‘Home’

WHERE ONE LIVE’S, AS A VEHICLE FOR A PERSONAL RESPONSE TO ONGOING WORLD EVENTS 2020-22, AND A MORE BROADLY BASED REFLECTION ON LIFE.

This six panel composite painting, combines a reflective personal response to the Covid 19 Pandemic, with concern about the escalating effects of climate change. In addition, it uses a range of visual metaphors to interweave a narrative about life’s journey: emotional, sensory and intellectual. It encapsulates our domestic interior, as a panorama, within which daily life and creativity goes on. My response is framed by the maxim: ‘Think for yourself, act for others’. I imaginatively transform our home into a tableau, as a statement on both positive and negative aspects of the pandemic, and the life threatening reality of climate change. As a brief introductory guide, see: Panel 5: Theme: Hope. Vertical shelving with lamp light, interrelated with a DNA double helix. This references the positive ‘light of hope’ given by scientists, who quickly identified the genetic code of the virus. Also, see here: the NHS ‘Hand of Hope’, injecting the vaccine into the virus.

See Panel 3: Tipping Point Theme.The escalating threat of global warming. I transform our ceiling into gaps, through which effects of heatwave conditions, are brought close to home. Below see: on the table, a double headed ‘Janus’ symbolic of both backward and forward looking. Janus is betwixt, flame orange and green butterfly wings, looking backwards to an eco-balanced planet, and forward to a burning planet.

Space here, only allows brief headings of the other interrelated themes. Panel 1: Time. Panel 2: Circadian Rhythms. Panel 4: We are all made of Stardust. Panel 6: Mind.