Greg Page 09

Greg Page | One Second
8th September – 18th September 2009
Opening: Tues 8th September, 5.30 – 7pm

I’ve always been enthralled by how fast our brains can process images. In every second of cinema there are 24 individual still frames whizzing past your eyes. 

I always attempt to capture movement in my paintings.  With this series I included ‘time’. The results are 24 paintings equivalent to one second of motion. It’s an animation of sorts reflecting a large strip of film. 

Very early in the process it became apparent that each painting had its own agenda. I was constantly wrangling to maintain the sequence yet allow each work to stand on its own.

The character turns his head and mouths a word.  I’ll leave it up to you to decipher what he is saying and also to figure out his state of mind.

To best experience the work, I challenge you to run around the gallery and view all 24 paintings in exactly one second.

- Greg Page 2009