Future History

Currently, the focus of my work is a body of drawings and mixed media pieces with the working title, Future History.

Essentially ‘memento’ like studies, where subjects are represented within surfaces, rich in handwriting, casual marks,  stains and smears.



Implement  2010


These works are influenced, as much by antiquity, manuscripts,
and museum artefacts as by late 20th Century artists,
like Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly and Julian Schnabel.

Where, one strand of contemporary art, post Andy Warhol, questions 'authorship' and celebrates an aesthetic of industrial process, the work here, explores a micro personal, highly ‘idiosyncratic’, trajectory.

Here, this expression champions the resilience of an 'individual' contribution to a delicate cultural equilibrium.


Objects from my personal collection become the subjects.
These items have, typically, found me. I notice a thing and there is an ‘attraction’, usually because the discovered objects are ‘in transition’, in some way, their value in a state of flux.

Often the finds are tools or implements - the ‘tool’ representing the key to our place in the food chain.

Others reference art historical or cultural icons, 

Some are more universal, natural or organic forms.



Undo Do  2008


The concept of ‘in transition’ is significant because it is second nature, to me, working as an artist, to find transitional ‘spaces’. The fringes and boundaries are usually where a fermenting cultural dynamic exists.


The bringing together of unrelated items, like so much flotsam and jetsam, also re-presents threads of 'surrealism' in the form of the parlour game ‘Exquisite Corpse’, offered up for twenty first century scrutiny.



I experience a universe where everything is connected to everything, where all actions have consequences. Raising consciousness becomes essential, accepting that which we cannot 'know', Dark Matter.
 
Here, we need to befriend ‘change’, ‘risk’ and ‘difference’ to grow as individuals, and as a civilization.

Adaptability and invention brought us here.
Creativity our salvation - Imagination, our Future History.


                                                             Gordon Faulds - 2010

Seed Sower  2007

















































Finial  2009