Justin Bower Essay
#31 Gary Panter (Visiting Painting)
#32 Justin Bower (Response Painting)
I was interested in the Heisenbergian concept I saw in the previous painting, it reminded me of an illustration of what quantum mechanics would look like. I saw particles moving, existing in two states at once, uncertain of any real stability.
With that in mind, I wanted to give the previous painting a depth, pulling back from the flatness and giving these particles a space to exist. As if the viewer was being pulled back to see the cracks in the flesh through which we then saw the workings of the previous painting. I wanted a depth of field that could be seen through the devices of layering different elements such as a grey web over a fading background, shadows cast by the particles and finally a topographical final layer of fleshy swathes. O