david trout: recent
journeys from
A
good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent
on arriving. Lao Tzu
This exhibition explores the nature of
‘surface’ as part of understanding the visual world. Whilst traveling I am
conscious of the difficulties in penetrating the surface of a unfamiliar
culture and equally, how rewarding it is to reveal and capture a glimpse of
something new, even if not fully understood.
As an artist, the journey with the self is
no less hard to understand. To penetrate who one really is, to go beyond the
surface of one’s being has as it’s consequence a glimpse of what one might call
‘truth’.
As an artist and a traveler, I am confronted
with moments or fragments of a ‘landscape’ that is both mental and
metaphorical. The space I find myself after a journey when one confronts
the accepted familiar, is for a moment an experience of innocence, as if seeing
one’s home for the first time, one is a foreigner in one’s own garden.
The journeys I take as traveller
and as artist weave what is an essentially symbiotic relationship. This
exhibition explores both digital photography, digital
imaging and mixed media on canvas.