Palimpsests of Time; Moving Tone in Landscapes

Updated & Published – 23.05.2014

Image 1-6: Perspective is light, 2010,
Image 7-8: Dancing with the past, Ghosts of Blind Man’s Bluff, and Ghosts of the Blind Audience 2010, Lithograph, Edition of 60,

Our perception of tone, is what gives us an understanding of spatial awareness. I move the areas that we expect to encounter high contrast in tonal information (normally found in the foreground of painting and landscapes that we encounter) to give unexpected moments of spatial reflection. There is an element of chaos to this, I want to reflect the transformative nature of new backgrounds have on our perceptions and the chaotic nature of this.

I wish to acknowledge the following sources: Some important sources for the works were images of the audience at a Conference of the Blind in Washington, Futurism, Blind Man’s Buff painted by Auguste Joseph Trupheme (1836-1898), Paula Rego, Glenn Brown, Marcel Proust and of Van gogh. The artist wishes to acknowledge as a source for this artwork the image Members_washington_seminar_crowd.jpg. This source has been used with the permission of the National Federation of the Blind (HYPERLINK “http://www.nfb.org/”www.nfb.org). ‘Artistic Debt that Can’t Be Repaid’ Quote from – Memoirs of the Blind -Derrida – See more at: http://josephinelyons.com/works/artistic-debt-that-cant-be-repaid-2/#sthash.TZqJEnpI.dpuf