Commissioned for STAY by Commissions East & Arts Council England, East for a group exhibition at The Great Eastern Hotel linking the capital with the East of England during the Norfolk & Norwich Festival programme CAN 2015. (Contemporary Art Norwich)

Sacro Terra
Size: 122 x 91 x 7 cm
Materials: Encaustic wax, beeswax, natural earth pigment & gesso on canvas & board
Date: 2005

Status: Private Collection

‘The white canvas makes you stop and look at it closely. A gradation of wax and pigment on its surface suggests something seen from very far above, an old military bombardment aerial photograph, maybe – or is it something very, very small, seen through a microscope, a living form?

Are you witnessing the far away or the very close-up? 

Landscape or microbe? The living or the dead? ‘ 

Ali Smith