Time Machine and Modern Kitchen
Time Machine and Modern Kitchen were painted in tandem. They are identical in terms of application of paint. Each pixel of coloured pigment finds a corresponding location on the sister painting. The image chosen for Time Machine came from the Argos mail-order catalogue, representing a generic food-processor. I found this image interesting as it contained a bowl of fruit and vegetables in the background, harking back to the familiar still-life genre exemplified by the Dutch 17th Century painters. The fruit and vegetables seem to be the same as the ones about to be pulverised, seeming to give temporal pause, functioning as a memory of pre-technological origins. So the title Time Machine refers both to this historical trajectory and the time saving function of this kitchen gadget. Modern Kitchen represents the image fragmented, as if the device has been switched on and the image has been sliced, rather than the vegetables. A perfect square is filled. It presents a kind of Cubism by default, due to a simple technical glitch.
