Between Rhyme and Reason

Transported to a place between rhyme and reason, we’re invited to imagine ourselves in fantasy worlds; filled with an optimism of possibilities, for a host of desirable outcomes. We see ourselves in the joys of ‘rhyme’, where life is filled with playful verse, inviting patterns and an original beat. This experience is tempered by the speculation of ‘reason’, with its witty asides, and wisdom in its sensory implications. Within this exhibition, we see that books have tumbled open to display their internal narratives. Mirrored compacts, grass covered purses and an assortment of curious household objects from a bygone time, all seem to be regenerating. The scenarios that are coming to life are dream like, while also suggestive of memories. They offer feelings of nostalgia for an often-told family story, and even remind us of that enthusiastic invitation to play, so freely offered to us by our friends when we were children. Time is re-presented to us in the recreation of each of these small worlds as daydream, and evolves through the narratives that are implied and into which we are invited to invest our own desires as voyeurs, into the pleasurable outcomes of the stories being told. The miniature scale of the artwork, often calls up a type of longing for the viewer, to travel back to that place in our lives that is so fondly remembered, and to be in that world again. To hold on to the things we loved and valued, or remember with wonder, in an attempt to re-experience them through our fantasies, even if it’s just for a short time. We are invited to dream and play between rhyme and reason