'Far and Near of Things' is a part of a series exploring the act of close-looking from a distance. 

Extreme close-up of seedheads blown-up dramatically, dominate the composition, revealing nuanced complexities of each entity. Yet in an instant, we are made aware of their distance from the position of our gaze. The irreconcilable phenomena, brought on by the visual tension of simultaneously encountering the seedheads up close and from afar, plays on human's biophilic propensity and the complex connections between being, time, and place.
Informed by the Chinese ink painting method of manoeuvring bulks of water over thin rice paper, and observation of vernal pools found in the woodland around the UK, I like my working process to be intuitive and organic. Heavy puddles of ink and pigments are first introduced onto the heavy paper where their residual marks guide the subsequent brushworks. This is one of my ongoing series where familiarity and contradictions of 'being' and 'place' play out.