Oil Paint on Expensive European Canvas
85cm x 30cm
Entitled On Reflection, Marks used a palate of 45 colours, then hand-cut 40,000 vitrified ceramic triangles and assembled them piece by piece to his computer generated design. This process took three months to complete. Up close the work seems completely abstract. Further away the arrangement of triangles appear as small three-dimensional pyramids. Further still and the mosaics reveal themselves to be images of the garden opposite the building, and the rear of the houses in Charlotte Street. Marks describes the images as being “low resolution mirrors”.
“I wanted to create a work that engages people. Time and movement are integral to this work. It should not be immediately evident that the work is in any way representative. The eventual realisation that it is adds to the experience.”
