Standing Still
$15,000.00
‘Standing Still’
Neil Williams
oil on linen
153 x 183cm canvas
155 x 185cm framed (black stained box frame)
Exploring the infinite possibilities cast forward in our minds when we look back through the lens of nostalgia, the works evoke the tyranny of physical and chronological distance, portraying figurative visual narratives featuring historical architectural remnants often nestled within idyllic rural landscapes. Isolated built structures take on an air of storied exile, existing as vessels for collected memories and the long-faded minutiae of post-colonial life. Rendered in oil and recognisable by their familiar pitched rooflines and simplistic compositions against expansive skies of brooding stratus clouds, the buildings challenge us to imagine the lives carried out within their walls, almost like we are looking through a portal onto days gone by to unearth answers about where we came from and why today’s lifestyle patterns are what they are.
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