the silk mill, teachers simone / mark
Frome
Simone is a contemporary artist, born in London. Simone’s multimedia practice
explores the intersections of memory, phenomenology and the experience of the
inner landscape. ‘The mind tackles duration as a simultaneous process merging
past memory and future projection within a continually unfolding present.’ Henri
Bergson Having dedicated a decade to disciplines of Yoga and movement therapy,
her work investigates the dichotomy of mind/body as understood by the
philosophical underpinnings of yoga as an evolution of consciousness. Simone’s
work deals with the workings of the inner world, reflected in natural phenomena.
Through photography, video art, drawing and lithography, we travel through
sheaths of the outer body to the landscape of the inner body. Moon cycles,
tides, solar energies and planetary movements; these cosmic circadian wanderings
are captured across experimental media techniques, culminating in what she terms
‘Light Paintings’. They are an act of observation and slowing of time, to view
each fragment of the present as interdependent.
