2016 • kadett / space academy • with clare logan

Way of no weight

Way of no Weight is a multifaceted phrase that comes from deep within Liv’s word archive. On a grand scale it is the striving for detachment from the catastrophic weight we place on our planet through societies perceived need for materialistic growth. Within the smallness, the pin prick of our lives, it is the reflection upon and the uncovering of the weight we place on ourselves. It is the considerations of our footsteps and our actions, of out thoughts and our words. These works have sprung from the engagement with the natural world. The movement through, in, over and around our ancient lands have provided infinite access to the seen and unseen threads of our whenua. These have been morphed and explored visually through paint and paper. Piqued with notions of ephemerality, global calamity, pondering on humanity and the striving for calmness within it all, these works speak of the perseverance of zen in both the physical and the metaphysical spaces we occupy. 

CLARE LOGAN
My forays into the mountains are a kind of research... I reflect during, and later, on the experiences. I’m interested in moments had as a human in those environments. How I move through them , how I weight the spaces with thought and myth.... haunting of what has come before/what is to come. How as people we relate to those spaces, and how our responses might be written deep in our genetic memory. Hauntings ! Ephemeral in- betweens, real & imagined...

these works are related to the physical plane, but it’s the tangental references my thoughts get carried away on that weight the physical experience. the land is fogged by personal projections. through painting I try to capture for a second those fleeting moments of clarity as i move through the land. The in - between state of an experience of the land, the blurring of real and imagined, psychological & physical. that are weighted with consciousness of memories of distant pasts and far futures. Frontiers & edges of things, places of uncertainty and shrouds. I like ambiguity. little pauses, intakes of breath...

LIV WORSNOP
I am interested in the activation and dormancy of every fragment of life. Quantum physics states that the very act of seeing dictates how life will behave. It’s part of the power of being alive. Yet the activation that happens from humans runs on a human based timespan. Different to the universal timeline. I think that’s why I like using these landscapes. They are printed in the 80s when the pace of knowledge was slower and they were a primary source. The books have been pushed into dormancy by the internet yet their subject matter exists in the billions of years. They are reactivated in the here and now by one little mind, one little fragment of the universe seeing them and igniting them.

The magnetism of these works, for me, exists in the fragment of interaction myself and these  images have in the grander scheme of eternity. I feel life so strongly then.