Space

1989-1990
Photocopy, stencilled oil colour, fretwork and lead
56 x 41 centimeters

This ghostly knealing figure was used in an earlier collage from this series. In that work he faced a deluge, here he is contemplating the void which could lterally be in the asteroid belt. Much like with the other collages, I had liberated myself from the requirement of cohesive subject matter before I started on a new work and I can't offer a satisfactory explanation for the meaning of this one. I usually worked with the assumption a meaning would become clear during the making or after completion. This character appears vaguely god-like; alone and omnipotent, in contrast to the characters who populate the scenarios explored in the rest of this series, they are subject to forces they are unable to control.

The background of the Figures in a Landscape collages