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Mark Cullen Ab-Ex Digital Prints

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Ab-ex 11

Ab-ex 3.5

The Ab-Ex prints are abstract representations of pathways or vectors of movement and energy. The image is a series of connections and intersections in an abstract space.
The prints are 2 dimensional yet there is a sense that the action is taking place in an infinite space which recedes and expands beyond the viewing area. The viewing area is set within a white boundary that serves as a window or frame from which the viewer is offered a limited scope of the event frozen. The window is an arbitrary boundary on this event. What we see is chaotic patterns of movement and line, yet within this flux there is repetition and a sense of rhythm.

These prints take some of their influence from ideas of Brownian motion, in the study of particle physics. They are equally engaged with notions of pathways and connectivity within the real or virtual word. The title Ab-Ex is a nod to the influential work of the Abstract Expressionistic painters, particularly Franz Klien and Jackson Pollock. They do not function as a critique of their work, but are rather a development of the creative process that was begun with the automatic writings of the Dadaist movement, and the subsequent development into a form of automatic painting with the Abstract Expressionists. I perceive this Ab-Ex work as a form of automatic drawing utilising the computer as the primary tool of creation.

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