Today, Tim and I drove into Bexhill and we stopped off at The De La Warr Pavilion. Apart from being the venue we got married in, it’s a fabulous gallery space with panoramic views of the sea. The current exhibition, A Nod to Cage is wonderful. The American writer, composer and artist has a large number of prices on show as well as installations and audio visual booths.The drawings are created by seemingly random shakes of a dice and a grid like pattern on the page which determines where the elements are placed.I liked the sparse and unusual compositions of the artworks and didn’t realise until the end of the show that he had created them this way.He let a craps game be the conductor of his work.
After we left, it got me thinking about shapes and voids – the areas outside the subject matter and how beautiful this can be and how in a way, this can be more important that the key subjects. So when I took some snapshots, it seemed the “nothing” were my focus.
I like the way the cloud wisp cuts diagonally across the rectangle of the photograph, and the crisp bold walking cane of the street lamp is strongly contrasted against the blue.
