Hand stencils
Cueva de El Castillo
Cantabria, Spain
c. 35,000 BCE
People
die, and things survive them. We look for meaning everywhere, fervently in
the things of the dead. But some of these things are constructed in such a way
that they seem to activate and respond to our random projections, feeding on
them, and swelling into a feedback loop of call and response. Paintings are
these things. C.S. Peirce defines an index as a category of sign that
maintains a physical tie to its referent. Every painting is indexical, an
index of consciousness itself. In work, every painter is like a deaf-mute.
So in death, there is no voice lost, but consciousness prevails.
Damien Meade, 2014
Damien Meade (IE/BG)
Untitled
2013
oil on linen on board
46.5 x 35.5 cm
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