SHAYNE DARK
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Box 3-5, Hartington, Ontario, Canada, K0H 1W0
Tel: 613.374.6000
Fax: 613.374.5206
Email: shayne.dark@sympatico.ca
This series started with a general idea of what shape I wanted to make and my decision to place some elements on the wall. The forms that emerged are metaphorically suggestive. I have been exploring the circle, which has always been viewed as an indivisible totality. Circular movement is perfect in itself, unchangeable; it has no beginning or end. My aim is to create shapes that are timeless in nature.
The objects and installations are serene in contrast to their colour that can vary from hues of luxurious brilliance to glowing neon and metal. The work finished with broken glass is alluring and seductive as the light plays across a field of shimmering color. An unassuming, ordinary material-broken glass-becomes something other, something that transcends its materiality.
Complementing the fragile glass is the emphatic steel ball bearings. I made a discovery about the human mind when I applied the bearings to the work in a very random formless way. I used various sized bearings with each piece and after stepping back from the work I found that there was a logical order to the bearings. I was not seeking a pattern however I realized that the chaos of the bearings was organized automatically into an orderly design. The human brain seems to need to make sense of chaos and develops order where none exists. Grounded in Minimalism, these pieces take the viewer from two to three dimensions, from accident to design, from form to the open-ended reservoir of the viewer’s imagination.
All of the work maintains a sense of human scale and intimacy that draws the viewer in and establishes a connection between the viewer and the art object. Much of the imagery is arrived at subconsciously. The sleek, alluring surfaces of these objects are meant to draw one in and invite touch; the sheer beauty of shape, surface and colour becomes a means by which emotion is given a material identity.
*The artist would like to thank FAG Bearing Canada for its generous corporate sponsorship.
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| 'Quality of Silence' |
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| 'In the Shadow of the Sun' |