Psyche D / EvH is an edition on paper, offered alongside a larger metallic C type study.
About Psyche D / EvH
I drew Psyche D / EvH (event horizon) in 2017, as part of my Current at Catto show. It’s a wildly complex drawing, that freewheeled out of control as it went on.
In its initial incarnation, it was conceived as a kind of giant psychedelic Krispy Kreme doughnut, with a petal like structure containing a wholly fluid series of line drawings, that bubble and move like a 60’s oil light show, in a kind of camomile pink colour.
Looking back from this distance it was either insane or brilliantly exuberant. I’m not sure which.
That piece has yet to be editioned, as I feel it would test the goodwill of any gallery to the outer limits, so it remains on hold, lurking in the back of my imagination, festering really.
There’s an interesting conversation to be had there about what should and shouldn’t be editioned, and who chooses. The simplistic answer is the artist of course, but it’s a much more complex issue than that in reality.
Ultimately I think you have to take your audience with you, as a shared experience in which you travel progressively away from your start point, trying not to leave too many people behind. If you lose everyone along the way, then you'll end up speaking to no one of course, which is in itself an interesting thought to contemplate.
Does an artwork need an audience? Not sure. Simply making work each day has some significant benefits for the artist, so perhaps the answer is no, the work doesn’t need an audience?
Having drawn Sun : Moon : Cosmos {67} a few months earlier, I realised that I could probably steer the Psyche D study in a similar direction, and so started work on this largely gold and blue piece, that like Cosmos holds a separate disc at its core, a centre in the void, surrounded by an explosion of colour and form, that in some way seems almost like a universe or cosmos, surrounding the planet like disc.
The split blue core can be read in a myriad of ways, certainly as the blue pill / red pill question from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, later referenced in the Matrix, or as a reference to Bill Ander’s Earth Rise photo taken from space in 1968, alongside any number of other dualities that you may care to plant there.
Psyche D in situ
Price and dimensions
Psyche D / EvH is a ten colour archival pigment print on 305gsm, 100% cotton, Hahnemühle fine art paper.
The work can be supplied unframed, or framed and ready to hang. I tend to use fairly minimal glazed and painted tulipwood frames, and set the work ‘straight in’ under the fillets, without a window mount. If you’d like to discuss other framing choices to suit your space please do get in touch.
Individually signed and numbered
From an edition of 24 prints, plus 2 APs
Image size ⋅ 80cm H x 80cm W
Sheet size ⋅ 94cm H x 94cm W
Artwork only, ready to frame ⋅ £780
Dry mounted and fitted with a hand painted tulipwood frame ⋅ £980
Associated works
