Striping all my research into Surrealism and the spiritual in art back to it’s fundamentals and combining it with my connection to the Tarot, I am left with the four elements; Fire, Water, Air and Earth.
For reasons I have yet to investigate in any depth I am currently most drawn to the element of fire.
There is something cathartic about releasing authorship of the work to the will of the element and my own unconscious energy in the movement of my limbs to facilitate it. A release of control, a moment on the precipice of moving too close and watching the whole page float up in ash and flames, the magical emergence of unknown imagery and visual triggers in the marks of the soot.
Does this image come from me, from the elemental energies of the universe, from the hand of spirit, or just from the pure chance of all these things coming together? What is to be read in the visual outcome? Ultimately the narrative can only ever be that of the subjective viewer and the power of it dependent on their own system of triggers and beliefs.
