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General Hardware Contemporary
Kate Wilson, Botanical Mechanics
Kate Wilson, Night Botanicals

1520 Queen St W, Toronto, ON, M6R 1A4

Lower Toronto Route

Night Botanicals

Exhibited artist: Kate Wilson

Standing trees sleep in this forest that it created the night when the moon was looking elsewhere. Gone the sailboats, the sea, in this obscurity that’s keeping no promise. ~ NIGHT – Etel Adnan For each project or body of work, I first need to develop a structure to work within — some gestural, subliminal invitations to guide the work in a particular conceptual direction. Night Botanicals explores botanical forms, shadowy ghosts and wind patterns: small contained architectures deeply embedded in organic environments that themselves are caught up in wild weather: roaming the back of a fictional wind. There is an intertwining relationship between botanical forms, planetary shapes, audio spectrum, distant constellations, and molecular components suspended in space and darkness. In addition to my observation of the natural world, my work is inspired by a zeitgeist of images. With this, I create a synthesis of these elements, arranging them into an integrated dialogue to tell a distinct and dark narrative. The mysterious story unfolds through the synthesis of these elements. Through this amalgam of visuals, I can invent a narrative that visually evokes a dark and unknown composition. The state of the environment and the toxic colours interrupt any romanticism. Usually, there is something that jumps out at me as a central point. Then, it’s a matter of drawing out that glimmer of light from the shadowy darkness. From here, I can build a narrative of colour, form, and line around the central idea, pushing it into the light.

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