Helen Johnson
Sorry and thankyou, 2022
Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on canvas
280 x 212 cm
110 1/4 x 83 1/2 in
110 1/4 x 83 1/2 in
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Sorry and thankyou are ways through – in a country where you don’t speak the language, these two words will allow you to make your way. The subject’s gaze in...
Sorry and thankyou are ways through – in a country where you don’t speak the language, these two words will allow you to make your way. The subject’s gaze in this painting becomes all-seeing, proliferating. This could be understood as vigilance, paranoia, and it could also be understood as how we all must be in the face of the primacy of the image. A burgeoning gaze, a response to the overwhelming array of images encountered constantly. Thinking about this as a condition, and within this condition, how to find ways to connect, to love.