A&D ANNUAL 2021

Matti

Matti experienced anxiety when his hands wouldn’t draw what his eyes were seeing so he began using interference techniques and ended up exploring the curious place between representative and abstract landscape art. Hypothesising that he could increase abstraction if he let the landscape do more of the drawing, Matti experimented with tools and materials from a neighbour's lemon-scented eucalyptus. With each new portrait of the tree, it was as if the tree was drawing him with its own body. Eventually, Matti realised that the space between representation and abstraction is not a point but a spectrum. This led him to extend his technique into a unified, site-specific art-walk which is replicated in the gallery, inviting participants to walk on the art.