While researching for my dissertation, I came across a critic who wrote of the interiors of artist Rosson Crow: ….these places lack any structural coherence necessary to labelling them as true ‘interiors’. Each scene offers an amalgam of collaged perspectives, the effects of which can be unsettling. –TD Neil, 2006, p.83 This is relevant to what I am attempting to do with my current interiors, which are composed from different elements from various images of rooms put together in a single composition, and combined with confusingly-arranged walls to create a disjointed and surreal appearance. An example of this can be seen in one of my most recent paintings, A Figment of Paint, the final version of which I am currently painting onto a large canvas. In this painting I have combined disjointed staircases with zig-zag stairs, with partially hovering chairs that have parts missing from them, and a disembodied door under which a pool of green paint is escaping, as if warning the interior that it is merely an illusory scene created by material objects, and could dissolve at any minute if somebody chose to alter it. This combination of surreal and bizarre objects is designed to create a space with a feeling of theatrical falseness, and to create a sense of unfamiliarity in a category of space that would normally be everyday.
