Rosalyn A. Richards

Statement

My recent work has evolved out of a fascination with how developments in technological imaging have given us a new way to see and understand the natural world. Technology has opened up an unseen world of nature and has influenced how we experience our surroundings.

Images from scientific sources such as seismology, micro tectonics, oceanography, and theoretical physics, have been compelling to me personally because of their evocative and mysterious qualities. My interest in using scientific imagery is a means to move into a realm that concerns our efforts as humans to make sense and meaning out of physical phenomena. But I also wish to deal metaphorically and contemplatively with issues of memory, perception, and the passage of time.

My images are directly related to mechanical images generated by technology, but I am also interested in the immediacy and presence of the hand made object, and drawing as a sensual and tactile process. I often work in double images, or sequential images in order to explore a world of expanding references, hidden meanings, associations, and movements from one realm to another.

My large-scale drawings require a physical involvement, both by the artist and by the viewer, while the small format prints encourage an intensity of perception and visual focus. Their intimacy evokes notebook pages and imaginary diagrams. I have tried to allow each image to reveal the intensity of its own marks, lines, shapes, or information systems from which it is built. My hope is that these images, which began as functional data, will be imbued with new life and mystery through their transformation.

ROSALYN RICHARDS