INVISIBLE SPECTRUM ⟫
Mixed Media Painting
Invisible Spectrum - Iodine 131, Caesium 137, Caesium 134, Strontium 90, Plutonium 239
Linseed oil, pigment, Japanese crushed stone pigment, vinyl, silver, gold and copper leaf, canvas
Approx 350 x 500cm
This painting was a reaction to the Great Eastern Japan disaster that happened in 2011. It was also influenced by a "dream" from director Akira Kurosawa's film Dreams (1990). The rather clairvoyant film depicts clouds of invisible radiation that had been purposefully coloured. The clouds-at once dreamlike and beautiful, are also deadly and terrifying. Having seen the film a number of times as a child, and growing up, I didn't feel the weight of its reality until after the Tsunami and nuclear catastrophe of March 2011.
