h is for hieroglyphic—Detail

Oil on Canvas, 91 x 91 cm

This oil painting, like the other works in my series “Scripted” (sub series “Re:Cursive”), shows the repetition of a letter and the resulting patterns. Original alphabets were pictographs. In that sense my art series is situated within an ancient tradition. It is not, however, a homage or dead repetition. Rather, it subversively re-animates the ancient codes to enable precise and incisive comment on current cultural dilemmas.

The letter of this artwork is ‘h’. The word for h could only be “hieroglyph”—that most potent cultural referent for pictorial languages. It is, like my own work, a rebus (“not by words but by things”) that hints at the satirical possibilities in the borderlands between word and image.

Please find the full artist statement for the series “Re:Cursive” in the artwork section, with the painting “a is for arresting.”

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. —David Hare

Please find the full artist statement for the series “Re:Cursive” in the artwork section, with the painting “a is for arresting.”