Statement

The work responds to the landscape and the sense of place within the context of how we define our existence. We like to know exactly where we are in relation to something else. This could be a reference to a map where we can see where we are, or it could be in our social strata of what class we see ourselves in. The work explores the way of making something familiar through marking it, and making it have a place. I see our existence as being metaphysical* and even without ownership we somehow have a need to make a proxy ownership of the space we inhabit. Through the work process which ensues from these aims I seek to construct a catalyst for an intellectual experience that becomes the domain of the sensations received through the eye. i.e. the concept is formed by the visual experience.

John Brown

*A Dictionary of Philosophy- p 230 "From Kant onwards many philosophers have held that the proper outlet of the metaphysical impulse lies in the systematic study, not of reality but of the fundamental structure of our thought about reality."