Colin Hill
There are no Ideas but in things.
-William Carlos Williams
No object has inherent meaning.
Working primarily with mixed media painting and sculptural assemblage I explore the untapped potential of the found object; things plucked from the landscape and the studio floor; objects and materials, colors and textures; using the obsolete, discarded, and unmade (among other things) I work to encourage a further look at and into 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 and us. By means of experimentation, I seek out 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.