Margaret-Anne Smith
White Marble, Green & Black & Yellow
2018
Inkjet Print, Gouache, India Ink on Paper
11 x 14 inches
This is a photograph of a scrap of marble I picked up at a stone yard where I was having a piece of stone cut. It is photographed against a yellow action painted backdrop I made in my studio. The green textured band of paint coming down from the top right is an entry point into studying the shape of certain facets of the marble. This entrance led me down 4 planes or angles, around an outcrop and out of the marble onto the yellow foreground. The 2-dimensional outline of the photographed stone intrigued me, I flipped a smaller version of the shape, traced it onto the photograph and made my own strata object in front of the original stone behind it.
The reason I chose this image is because, for me as I stay at home during the Corona Virus outbreak, it reaffirms the interconnectedness of all things, among them human and mineral. It reminds me of the way energy is recycled by wind, sun, water and a person’s hand. It makes we wonder at the creativity of matter and the intersection of that matter with creativity in the human spirit.