Ghost Ships

The phosphorescent paint is amazing and I am enjoying working with it hugely. The bioluminescence of fungi and glow worms is making perfect sense and all my concerns about fairy lights early on in the MA have proven unfounded - yet more evidence that pulling on threads without judgement is the way to creativity. I knew there was something in there… In the first (and only?) crit on the MA I showed paintings using phosphorescent paint in a very similar way and I was so unsure about it, it all felt so thin but actually here I am doing much the same with the critical distinction that I now understand why. I have been working with dark skies for a long time and these feel like a substantial continuation in the same vein. Bioindictor species are interesting in the context of ecological damage and the speckled phosphorous lights are both beautiful visualisations of data sets that are so hard to relate to and at the same time a woeful harbinger of extinction, death and seeming inevitability of ruination. These drawings are imaginings of ghost ships, drifting and lifeless, a phosphorescent wake of death and our collective choices.