On Courage
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- Sep 14
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On Courage’ is part of a wider body of work exploring regenerative processes across human and non-human lives. I contemplate how time is inscribed in the layered growth of biomaterials and how memory lingers in the scars of terrain and built fabric.
Courage, both individual and collective, is shaped as much by social rituals, shared histories, and inherited knowledge as by ecological survival. Here in Sicily, wild Etna Volcano shows its mythical force in time and space, revealing how violent, yet lyrical, are the constant movements for survival of the land and its biological forces. Likewise, On Courage explores persistence through material. Pigment, ground and gesture bear traces of rupture, erasure and repair. Layers are applied, removed, and reworked. To persist is to surrender to that tension: to care for what endures, to allow what has emerged to guide what comes next - the next change, the next move.
On Courage
110x125cm
Acrylics, oil sticks and pastels on raw cotton canvas, hand stretched by the artist using local wood from Sicily.
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