Deep Looking and Art Viewing
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My work is layered, detailed, colourful and complicated. It's reflective of the incredible detail in the natural world and my personal enjoyment of the sensual pleaures of "deep looking". Life is fast these days. Fast, and it seems, loaded with an infinity of flashing images and sounds. For many years I have been intrigued by the work of deep listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros. From the Deep Listening website, "The practice of deep listening is intended to heighten awareness of sound, silence and sounding". Why not also "Deep Looking"? Let's say a practice of deep looking is to heighten awareness of form, depth and [...]
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