Like The Moon

Like The Moon is a collection of paintings that draw on the idea of the midnight labyrinth described by Jorges Luis Borges in 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (1941). It is a complicated web of endings and beginnings, where the story splits in time not space. The forking and fissured nature of the garden creates parallel and sometimes converging realities. It suggests and is complex time itself. The work does not follow a story from its genesis to conclusion. Each painting may be seen as a discrete image, or as an inevitable link in a never-ending visual jigsaw.

Under the trees of England I meditated on this lost and perhaps mythical labyrinth. I imagined it untouched and perfect on the secret summit of some mountain; I imagined it drowned under rice paddies or beneath the sea; I imagined it infinite, made not only of eight-sided pavilions and of twisting paths but also of rivers, provinces and kingdoms. I thought of a maze of mazes, of a sinuous, ever growing maze which would take in both past and future and would somehow involve the stars.

Jorges Luis Borges, 'The Garden of Forking Paths', Ficciones, Everyman's Library, 1993. p.71

Like The Moon was made for Freightliners, a city farm in Islington, London, Feburary 2008. It has since been re-made for 13 Gladstone Place during Brighton Festival Artist Open House, May 2008, and in the open studio 22 Sandringham Road, London, September 2008.