Repetion Is On You, 2010
to each other really excites me. You can create moods with the colours you use. I am trying to use colour - I look at a dusky pink and and orangey yellow, and ask, how do they relate? But also I want to create several lines of colour that then begin to recede from the eye and still make sense. So that they all look like they are of the same material or the same body and sit differently in space. But they don’t say together, ‘I
am a fence’. If you look at a building in perspective, it’s bigger at one end and smaller at the other. But my structure is more ambiguous and less referenced. It has to say the same thing – perspective more clearly, precisely because it is not a building or a fence. One of the things about abstract art is that you have to say it clearly otherwise it gets lost. It’s all internalized. To talk about it in a clear way is really hard,
interview with Jude Hart
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