In conclusion...

Psychogeography

I am engaged in a form of psychogeography, a term used, to describe the intuitive negotiation of environment. It is also a journey, where I explore and investigate relationship with specific places that have particular meaning. How I physically and psychologically negotiate landscape is important and takes place on a local, autobiographical level. I am making sense of my relationship to the world around me through artistic interventions and representations. It is a struggle to reconcile the paradoxical nature of that relationship and bridge the gaps between knowledge and experience, subject and object, psyche and soma, culture and nature. I am attempting to reconcile the landscape of internal consciousness with the 'realities' of existence and to explore the boundaries of psychology and physicality. My practice recognises the art historical and theoretical context within which it is situated.

On a basic level, I'm engaged in a search for transformation through artistic interaction with elemental processes. It can be read as an attempt to locate and exist within the 'aesthetic moment'. It strives to get beyond the rootless condition of post-modernity and the unsustainability of global capitalism, but is inevitably tied to the pre-existing conditions of contemporary culture and it's historical materialism. Latour (1992) views the modernist and post-modernist project as a stale autonomy and encourages us think about what 'reality' might mean in a world of diversity. If this is to be attempted, I believe, it is important to analyse and integrate the gaps between knowledge and experience, subject and object, representation and reality, psyche and soma.

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Deptford Deposit
Devil's Glen

Ullswater Road.
Part of The Pilgrimage Project 2007
Patrick Semple (PS)