Through an exploration of perspective, complexity and scientific collaboration I create imagery that explains, reveals and connects us consciously to the ambiguous and unknown.
Yas Crawford was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales where the arts, it's geological landscape and biological make-up have it seems, subliminally seeped into her being and heavily influence her work. She has worked as both a scientist and an artist and now work in the 'Grey Space' the space in between those disciplines. This adds a cohesiveness and curiosity to the image-making. Working collaboratively or simply creating her own projects often reveals layers of research intertwined with the landscape.
The mapped landscape revealed in the images acts as a vessel to transport the story in a certain time and place, communicating the ambiguous and the unknown whilst creating a safe place for the viewer to absorb the information. The landscape acts a background onto which the micro and the macro of the internal and external human landscape are gently positioned. The repetitive nature of the images reveals the constantly repeated events whilst the sets of images are produced as if a scientific experiment catalogued for success or failure and reflected in its numbering. The abstraction recognises areas of ambiguity explored often through topographical and geometrical shape removing the onerous requirement of controls and variables leaving space for subjective expression. https://www.yascrawford.com
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