“Our eyes act as our translator from the external world into the internal world. The brain’s job is to make sense of what comes in from its sensory apparatus.
Familiar shapes, tones, and textures are revealed in the inherent synergies at play. Crucially, it is the viewer’s assignment of personal meaning that remains key to the comprehension
of these works.”
- CAROLINE CHRISTIE-COXON
Processing Paint delves into the micro-workings of paint, engaging digital technology to reveal more.
This ongoing body of work is acutely concerned with process and materiality, underpinned by the thematic considerations of CIRCLE CULTURE, referencing infinity, oneness and duality.
While the Circle motif remains ever-present in Paint Behaviour, its presence takes a back seat in Processing Paint - Christie-Coxon instead privileging the aleatoric potential of the medium; visceral, dynamic and responsive. The focus is magnification and recording of the visual revelations of painterly events subject to chemical reaction and natural forces.
Duality fundamentally underpins the works. The images create ‘macro-micro ambiguities’, i.e. simultaneously perceiving the impression of an aerial landscape and one of a microscopic representation.