She knew we live in a distant net of time and water and waves and noise and rain, without knowing if we exist or if we are her dream.
-Pablo Neruda, 1959
When we look out to sea our thoughts take flight. We turn inward and reflect upon the relentless forward movement of time and the shortness of our lives relatively speaking. This painting installation is a visual poem that taps into that feeling. The large panorganic landscape embraces the viewer, drawing us in to discover the texture of the work and the lightness in the mud Moore uses as a painting medium. Conspicuously earthy, the mud enables an ebb and flow between distant imaginings and physical reality.
Patrick Moore is originally an English export who has spent much of his life living and working in Peterborough. He earned a degree in Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Guelph and is known primarily as a painter of landscapes, often on a grand scale. This is only his second large scale installation at ARTSPACE since Double Landscape, a part of the New Faces show in 1986.
