Blue Night
2016
acrylic on canvas
101 x 101 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Midnight in the Garden
2016
acrylic on canvas
2015 x 1400 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Time Crystals
2016
acrylic on canvas
101 x 101 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Wind Story
2016
acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Twin Peaks
2016
acrylic on canvas
153 x 110 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Evermore
2016
acrylic on canvas
101 x 101 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
untitled
2016
acrylic on paper
42 x 30 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
untitled
2014
acrylic on paper
42 x 30 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Various Works, 2015-2016
These works are influenced by media events, the effects of climate change and mass migration that continues to impact globally as cultures are forced to relocate for a variety of reasons. The sublime and the beautiful influence my works as the historical text, ‘A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’, Edmond Burke 1909;[1] defines and nominates different emotional states humans experience, and their relationship to ideas of the sublime. Burke suggests that whatever is terrible, or a conversation about terrible objects, subjects, or danger, is a source of the sublime. Burke suggests that the sublime has the potential to produce the strongest emotion that the mind is capable of.
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[1] Edmund Burke wrote the first edition in 1756.