Impression (Painting No:4) was born of transitional decay. Sunflower heads wilted, stems softened as foliage blackened upon the canvas. The resulting marks permeate the surface, allowing something new to be seen.  Impressions outlined, space in-between painted to white, all before the canvas is returned to the garden. Here it will be left to weather the elements of light, wind and rain. Eventually bleaching it back to white, the original marks, lost, returned. The impermanence of this piece is intriguing as entropy and ephemerality ask questions of what it is to remain and return in nature.  

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Recording methodology simultaneously asks deeper questions of energy transformation as photographic records posted to online platforms and social media continue to draw energies from the planets resources, whether that be through water or electrical consumption.  Data storage, and dark data is resource hungry and its environmental impacts are becoming more significant. 

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Whilst in theory Painting No:4 adheres to the concepts supporting ephemerality, the unavoidable truth is more complex. The  evidential, digital documentation of this work is ongoing. It will 'live' on, drawing on the planets resources to sustain it.   This asks open questions of transferred, but not transformed energy, one I consider worthy of considerable debate and further exploration.

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