Alastair Mitchell

Post impact/detonation no.1

’’ My recent work has stemmed from a somewhat morbid fascination with the actions and ideologies of religious and political extremism – what we know as ‘global terrorism’.
Real-time, cinematic, catastrophic un-natural disasters have become my point of reference – an event that simultaneously makes mans private desires and worst fears, a reality.
I work from a still life, but the still life is worked from real life.
I am not seeking to create memorials, or stances of defiance, but to take a step away from the event - to render myself, and the viewer emotionally disabled.
Colour has no place in this representation – colour creates feeling.
I am trying to capture a moment in time. A period of several minutes, where, time seemingly stands still, is irrelevant, or simply does not exist – it exists, of course, but that moment is simply incomparable to the one that preceded it.
The event becomes warped in a bubble of timelessness, a shroud of dust and emptiness.’’