Pictures for Thinking has a wide breath of subjects: light, body, history, time, and measurement. Combinations of these subjects are used to elicit insights or to raise questions. In _Bones III _penetrating light becomes the source illuminating the shared structures of our varied bodies.
The same subject is often seen across two or more pictures. The parallel optics between them trigger comparisons and invite the viewer to examine myriad interpretations across subject and history.
The making of these artworks is akin to a chemical spill. It is an accident with an unpredictable result, but one in which chance and intuition coalesce. The entangled methodologies that bring these pictures to fruition include, in no particular order or hierarchy, the conventional mediums of print, drawing and painting.
If I was to ask the viewer of these artworks one thing, it would be to slow the gaze and deepen the optic nerves connection to the brain, to go the opposite direction of scrolling and millisecond focus.
– Benjamin Armstrong, February 2022
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