Brenda Miller
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Context
‘When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has’
from ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ De Certeau quoting Witold Grombrowicz
(Landscape, Gallagher & Keiller, 2000,126)
Current work continues to investigate the horizon/horizontal and the connection with memory. The moment of the present becoming the past. The recent installation ‘processed line/persistent memory’ dealt with reflections on an unusually deep indigo blue line on the horizon glimpsed when driving. Unable to stop and record the moment, the visual memory has been haunting and driven these explorations.
The work is drawing references from a variety of sources including the ‘Traveller looking over a Sea of Fog’ (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich of a man looking over a vast mountain landscape, inviting the viewer to admire his power which seems to exclude the viewer from his dream. Its connection to The Sublime, a sensation that is indescribable and unattainable, yet there is a romantic desire to find it. The suggestion of the infinity of the line, looking inward and the suggestion of perspective through the diagonal are referenced in the installation.
It is the process of making which continues to be important and the recent installation used knitted wire, making reference to industrial materials preferred by many of the minimalist artists. The concept of anti-form is also touched on, referencing Robert Morris’s felt pieces by hanging the work horizontally and allowing it to drape and respond to the space.
