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Referring back to that moment,
Is that where one surrenders? To implicate all resolute dependencies, discriminatory against seeing –
Really seeing.
As the gorse sets to the air, and the ash settles back into the ground.
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Jamie is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in West Cornwall, UK. His practice is underpinned by an investigation into the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments, referencing both internal and external landscapes.
The principal working materials within his often monochromatic vocabulary, are often sourced and repurposed from natural environments or borderlands and often include salvaged remnants of fabrics, natural pigments, as well as inorganic matter that functions as a counterpoint to the organic.
Pared down relationships between material narratives and process serve as allegory to psychological or emotional states; often surrounding memory, grief, and an exploration into the embodiment of these processes on a personal and universal level. These concerns facilitate a distillation of form that exists at a threshold between the abstract and the concrete, reflecting a space in which a minutia of gesture and a humility of material can communicate vital expressions of intimacy and connection.
His images, assemblages, and intuitively composed sound works can be viewed as markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form, environment, and personal histories.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
– Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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Where is the place you inhabit?
(Within boundaries) sound divides, re-frames – the silent echo.
Walls retract, breaching our solitary conviction of words.
What is said is undone, over and over.
Sustained belonging.
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