TREEPRESENTATIONS

Treepresentations is a series of four large scale paintings on wooden panels exhibited as part of '[met]afourisms' at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, in 2018. Each painting depicts a de-contextualised local tree as seen through a window, juxtaposed with a sterile blue sky. The series of paintings responds to an aphorism and draws on the 'cropped landscape’ to question the stale nature-culture dichotomy. Through de-contextualization the paintings infer things that might neither be here nor there; allusions abound when we are confronted with images that (we think) we are familiar with.

Endless, relentless, detours

through contours. Everyday

things are simultaneous

elusions and allusions, a series

of inferences from differences

and deferrals.