Colin Hill

There are no Ideas but in things.

-William Carlos Williams

No object has inherent meaning.

Working with painting and sculpture I explore the potential of the found, discarded and reclaimed objects that accrue in our shared landscape and in the studio; objects and materials that are cast away, obsolete, unwanted, perishable, discarded, and unmade (among other things), I work to evoke the illusory balance of our mechanized and manufactured environment, and to encourage a further look at and into and underneath the things that surround us. What do they have yet to reveal about what lurks beneath the surface of themselves and us? How do we approach and understand them? I hope to draw and out and generate hereto unseen connections between, and questions about, things and objects. By means of experimentation, I explore the fragmented histories and poetic forms of these precarious, impermanent and imperfect objects. Examined and re-examined, made and unmade, formed and reformed or deformed, stretched and compressed, these objects are imbued with potential, meaning-altering energy.