Linda Sgoluppi Artwork Details

 

 

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The Traces Series were inspired by seeing what appeared to be endless miles of ancient terrain while I was flying over Australia. The vastness below was a visual metaphor for the experience best described as being alone in existential space. Thinking of how I might create ‘maps’ for this existential space, an idea crystallized while I was on a beach in Newcastle in New South Wales. The colours in the rocks and sea pebbles were exactly the colours of the land. Many of the trail markings in the rocks appeared to be miniature repetitions of landscape markings I had seen from the air. Through a combination of pounding sea, and chemical action that sea-snails use to avoid being washed away, the series of criss-crossed patterns were incised in surface of the rocks. Each different crossing of trails seemed to have traced a new grid of reference. It was like a visual metaphor for the wider and random mapping of the terrain I had flown across. It was the form I used for the Traces paintings.