Daphne Arthur - Moonlite Nights

Daphne Arthur

Psychological Spaces are intricate filamentous structures composed of sensorial experiences, memories, time, and histories, combined to orchestrate ones’ sense of place and space. In many ways, the tension and cultural strain of being raised by Trinidadian parents in Caracas, Venezuela, has set the stage for my investigation of undefined psychological spaces where fragmented histories, memories, personal identities and mythologies are constantly invented and recreated. Navigating through these malleable constructed spaces, the represented bodies, landscapes and interiors exist in a perpetual state of flux, constantly coalescing the two-dimensional with the three-dimensional, subverting and blurring typical separations between painting, sculpture, drawing, illusion, and abstraction. Investigating the process of memory and reverie gives the work and overall sense of nostalgia and melancholia that is set in the process of reckoning and appropriating an experience, sensation, smell, and imagery to the point of assimilating it to such extent of making it part of your own experience. To a large degree the work is about longing to belong, longing to identify with and connect to.