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Installation View
Sean Steadman
The Earth is the Earth Because it is Nothing Other Than the Earth, 2015
Project Native Informant, London
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Sean Steadman
Lovers with Light Streaming through Window
2015
Oil, oil pastel and paper on canvas
195.5 x 250 x 4 cm
77 x 98 3/8 x 1 5/8 in
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Sean Steadman
Untitled
2015
Wax, wood, pigment, oil pastel and felt
Dimensions variable
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Installation View
Sean Steadman
The Earth is the Earth Because it is Nothing Other Than the Earth, 2015
Project Native Informant, London
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Sean Steadman
Yellow and Blue Scene
2015
Pencil and collage on monoprint
28.5 x 21 cm
11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in
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Sean Steadman
Pump
2015
Pencil on monoprint
28.5 x 21 cm
11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in
It’s deceptive that Artworks are considered the natural expression of an idea.
Making a decision undergoes a genesis which is blind. Without visible form, not- image.
Therefore, paradoxically, mental pictures don't give rise to pictures. Its the latter that illuminates the former.
The Earth is the Earth, precisely because it is nothing other than the Earth. A terrible consensus. Imagine all the worlds it isn’t, an infinity.
When clambering over the countless little failures and could-have-beens which constitute each line or colour, (ordinarily described as making choices), the artist ends up loving the worlds concreteness.
In this acceptance there is the recognition of a more primordial starting point than the privileged ‘idea’.
An affirmation to do rather than not.