Film image #29 with extrapolation and simulacra, or 'Gerontion'
2018, Acrylic on board, 40x40cm
This work is inspired by TS Eliot’s poem, ’Gerontion’ (1920). As one of the lines from the poem suggest: the old man has been driven by the trades to a sleepy corner. Above him the winding, twisting web of his life is described in a two-dimensional pattern of repetitive circles and pixels. It is an ambiguous pattern in that one could interpret the pattern as describing a repetitive life of tedium and conformity, or it could be a pattern alluding to something more significant, perhaps divine form. Two bright white pillars of light framing the scene on either side, would perhaps reinforce the latter meaning . The old man seems alone and crushed, but not destroyed.