Surface Tension

Tom Harker

The way I see painting is as a interplay between myself, the materiality, and its illusory surface. You can steer paint but it has its own pulse, how you describe something and where it leads to is infinite.

In the gestures there is the presence of the hand and of a thought. The substance of paint also holds its own inheritance, and that long history can be put to use.

I’m drawing from the ambivalence of a reality where everything is accessible and in play, atemporal and deterritorialized. This is an unbounded semiotic space that also moves through collective imagination and the subconscious mind.

From fragments I am looking at the relationships and the complex histories behind images. Overturning hierarchy and categorisation, to resist easy travel and to conspire a new set of associations.

A sea in suspense, a sea of sewage. What was imagined was just a projection. Rising glamorous and paranoid from the hygienic surface. They see the divers through a soup of lame fantasy, an astral tour of frigid spectral visions.