Love left in lieu by Alex Stone in Auckland

Love Left in Lieu 2012 Collage acrylic and sculpture elements on plywood A complex work with an overall harmony and balance that stimulates viewing perspectives and invites intrigue This long work has a delicate upper and lower curve in the frame that speaks to segments of longitude It is made in part from a collage of 150 maps of mountains laid side by side in equal measure Painted lines of mapping significance add texture and cohesion to the work eg railway lines are black secondary road lines are blue etc The white lines act as a binding device to bundle the other painted lines together 3D elements add architectural space to intimate the form of hills It is a work that had a slow genesis evolving with consideration to this present place of comfortable disjunction The eye must travel over sharp corners to see in part each duration irregular and locatable only within limited context The work plays with the linear format of maps and repositions them into a performance piece that marries pictorial plane with the language of sculptural space A poem attends to this work Turning ‘round corners uncomfortably sharp stacking in corners ideas left missing love left in lieu No straightforward answers wandering pencils souls lost in the mist coming upon intermittently occasionally contours crossing and cursing lines in the rain fault lines and plates rising again and volcanoes saying “Truth lies within the drawing of it”