Focal Point

2023
Gouache and spray paint on Fabriano paper
30,5 x 40,5 cm

Works on paper exploring the notion of attention. In cognitive psychology, attention refers to the concentration upon some phenomenon to the exclusion of others. It is the act of taking possession of a consciously chosen train of thought at the expense of any alternatives. In our increasingly technological societies, our attention spans grow progressively smaller. Our minds fill up with unnecessary clutter, the ignoring of which is becoming more and more difficult. These drawings are a meditation upon this problem in three stages.