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Charlotte Knight Tel 079099 12550 |
Questioning the creative use of repetition exposes its double nature, and the crude dissension between repetition as monotony and as the praxis for creative innovation. In apparent chaos where everything is in flux and seemingly nothing can be predicted, repetition establishes a frame of reference against which we can plot the diversity of our experience. A repeat is a link to the past and so demands comparison and evaluation, as arguably no repeat is ever a perfect copy of the past, the process itself demands the acknowledgement of difference. The process of repetition remains an elemental sign of life, as we never cease from the need to remember, to be recalled to the reality of the psyche, through some sort of visual repetition. My intention therefore is to raise questions about our sense of order and the interplay between apparent sameness and difference that alerts our perception and impacts our interpretation, as the viewer is seemingly compelled to connect with both the pleasure and disquiet caused by repetition. |
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The work explores
the process of repetition, in particular questioning the nature
of repetition as both the subject and the means of conception of
the work. Using industrial imagery and the directly repetitious
process of slip-casting I have examined how using repeated multiples
can reduce images to formal patterns in which all sense of subject
is lost. The considered arrangement of repetitive elements reflects
the sense of order inherent in the human psyche. 
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