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Memory drift
Memory drift by Richard Baxter.
The world is a stage without a story, or at least it's a story that is never-ending and being written continuously. Or it is billions of stories within stories, within stories. This is how I create, without a beginning or an end, without a specific narrative - just a happening in process. I don't want to know what is happening, and I don't pretend to know. It is beautiful, tragic, mysterious, magical and elusive. Paradoxically, perhaps, our soul is the eternally empty stage, and the universe is the eternal act in the never-ending movement. If I can hint at that, I'm happy. Richard Baxter, 2014.
Richard Baxter has painted an imagined event where an old wooden building has been lifted off the ground by strong winds. Birds swirl in the sky and a cat is caught high on the roof, while a rabbit looks from underneath. The sky is dark and mysterious as we are left wondering what will happen next.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)
Memory drift
Memory drift by Richard Baxter.
The world is a stage without a story, or at least it's a story that is never-ending and being written continuously. Or it is billions of stories within stories, within stories. This is how I create, without a beginning or an end, without a specific narrative - just a happening in process. I don't want to know what is happening, and I don't pretend to know. It is beautiful, tragic, mysterious, magical and elusive. Paradoxically, perhaps, our soul is the eternally empty stage, and the universe is the eternal act in the never-ending movement. If I can hint at that, I'm happy. Richard Baxter, 2014.
Richard Baxter has painted an imagined event where an old wooden building has been lifted off the ground by strong winds. Birds swirl in the sky and a cat is caught high on the roof, while a rabbit looks from underneath. The sky is dark and mysterious as we are left wondering what will happen next.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)