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Waypoints

Many of these works have come from my experiences whilst travelling in Spain and Germany in 2006. I was lost so many times there that it became a way of finding unexpected treasures. Hence these works began with sore feet, maps, correspondences, and often the notion of the guided Wanderer.

In the studio this led to questions such as: How does the eye navigate a landscape? How does travel and elevation create perspective? And having found Edens along the way, then fallen into the Fug, how does one find one's way back without a map?

Studies of bones I made in the Natural History Museum before I left for Spain led me in and out of every Archaelogical museum I could find. Trees of Finisterre [Spain] and Goettingen [Germany], Illuminated books of Toledo, sun-stroked statues at Santiponce and a visit to a Hamburg Library in the rain all became waypoints along the journey.

Through motion we yearn for stillness and vice versa. One creates perspective on the other. Experiences become stories,legends, myths, then paintings perhaps.

David Begley, February 2007