Mound Paintings

This series uses the mound as a way of thinking about experience as accumulation. Somewhere between a mountain and a molehill, the works becomes a surface to be climbed, echoing Camus’ figure of Sisyphus.

According to Nietzsche, tragedy holds the power to transform the terrible or absurd aspects of existence into something we can live with. Combining the Apollonian and Dionysian drives, the mounds beautify experience while still facing up to the reality of the sometimes repetitive and harsh world.

In these works, meaning emerges through relation rather than isolation. A brightly coloured area might register as a fleeting moment of joy; darker passages carrying weight or resistance.