The artwork features a portrait-like image against a dark background. The predominant colors are muted tones of pink and white, creating a soft, hazy effect. The composition is centered on a blurred, indistinct facial form, with subtle details suggesting facial features. The overall style appears to be a blend of photographic and painterly techniques, creating an ethereal, otherworldly impression. This piece likely explores themes of identity, perception, and the fluidity of human representation in contemporary art. ...
Cathleen Clarke’s artistic practice is united by her exploration of temporality, and the way time moves, death and recollection. Her references are memories from childhood, photographs of family from past years, and images which she finds and gathers. When creating her compositions, Clarke paints memory and her own personal history and fading memories, rather than focusing on the present and immediate. For Clarke, there is an ugliness inherent in how time passes, yet also beauty. As her figures seep and disappear into her backgrounds, they illuminate the confusion and lack of lucidity and certainty that are ever-present throughout life, and in death. ...
