EDITIONS // DARK MATTER PRINTS
The title “Dark Matter” makes a connection between the astrophysical phenomena and human emotions. Dark matter can’t be measured, seen, or touched; we only can infer its existence based on the gravitational effect it exerts on other astral bodies.
I see emotions in a similar way: we feel them, but they remain intangible; we only know of an emotion’s presence because of the physiological and mental effects it creates in us.
Edition sizes are strictly limited to 20 impressions per image.
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 1 (irrepressible)
Archival Pigment Print
in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
Phase 1 is the heart in its full glory, pulsing and glowing with life, love, and vitality. The reds are saturated and rich, like strong, healthy blood.
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 2 (vulnerable)
Archival Pigment Print
in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
In phase 2, the cold blues creep across the surface, tempering the heart’s strength. Just like a lava flow, as the heart cools it first turns bluish grey and eventually goes black.
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 3 (weakening)
Archival Pigment Print in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
In phase 3, the heart has been enveloped. The soft blue tones distract you from what’s actually happening inside. As the outer crust thickens, the heart at the core is compressed and cut off from the outside world.
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 4 (veiled)
Archival Pigment Print in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
As the phases progress, the sculptures blacken and the crust thickens. The subtitle “veiled” gives you a sense of the growing darkness. You can still see a few hints of the colour, of the life-force being compressed within.
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 5 (impenetrable)
Archival Pigment Print in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
Phase 5 is the blackest darkness, the deepest isolation in utter silence. But although it does represent “rock bottom”, that’s also the most encouraging thing about it. The only way to go from here is up.
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 6 (emerging)
Archival Pigment Print in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
Phase 6 is the most exciting of them all because you can see the first signs of the transformed heart emerging from her cocoon. Glowing reds and pinks shine through the cracks in the outer shell and the restricting sphere shape begins to soften.
front view
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024
Dark Matter
phase 7 (uncontainable)
(front view)
Archival Pigment Print in museum mat board
40 x 40 cm
2024
This sculpture is the final phase, entitled “uncontainable”. It shows the heart having bursting through the thick, black crust that had encased it for so long.
side view
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2024