Wendy Smith

My drawings are not deliberately 'abstract'; rather, they are an attempt to make visible aspects of reality we cannot actually see. Cyberspace, for example, is not a geographical location like Coventry, it is not a physical object like an apple and nor does it contain furniture as a room might. Cyberspace is beyond the descriptive powers of geometrical perspective yet it is a real part of our everyday lives. If we are to adapt to the new worlds we discover and create we need to develop new ways of seeing; which is to say, new ways of picturing. The gouache titled Block is a puzzling kind of block; it has no counterpart in the physical world, nor is it a kind of diagram from which a three-dimensional object could be constructed. Its shape seems clearly defined but in fact there is no outline. The structure is both baffling and yet at the same time perfectly logical.

Thoughts for Lucia I, ink on board, 102 x 76 cm
Thoughts for Lucia I, ink on board, 102 x 76 cm
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