| Howard Skrill:
Red Trestle Through Bridge
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"Railroad Bridge"
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"Shoreline With Smokestacks"
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"Three Towers"
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| Artist's comments |
"Since 2001 I have been exploring the concept of 'Thru' in my work. 'Thru' relates to two basic ideas - physical and psychic barriers to perception, and perceiving the landscape in motion. The idea is to articulate the landscape as 'glimpsed' - the objects perceived in a blur of motion, appearing disembodied, transitory and elusive. The earliest manifestations of ‘Thru’ appeared in works of five years ago when trestles and bridges that dot our urban, exurban landscape began to appear in my work. Some recognizable object would appear in the distance, muted by the barriers of weather or crude industrial steel. Increasingly the barriers themselves became the works’ principal focus. Barriers taking numerous forms in these images: light, ice, rain, wind, atmosphere, trestles, wires, and even those barriers emerging from the human soul or as the cataclysmic explosion of human violence.
‘Thru’ has explored entrée’ impeded, the in-between state, the physical and psychic distance that exists between the self and that which is desired, even if that object is barely wanted, perhaps unrecognizable, mutable, vulnerable to destruction or indeed in a state of dissolution. My most recent efforts examine this in-between space in blow-back, dissolving in a vortex of elemental violence, overwhelming the surrounding space and perhaps the viewer with the force of its impact." (2004) |
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