Looking towards the Land

Looking towards land
Returning or leaving 
Day becomes night
Reptilian rocks shift
Mottled greys pause
Almost imperceptible
Dying light - Through
Particles of dust
Ripples - 
- ochre, sienna, lapis
Maureen Kendal 2023

Through this artwork, which is one of a series of drawings, Maureen is asking psychological/ philosophical/ logical/ poetic/ personal questions around how we as humans, (as distinct from human-mediated machines ) experience ‘place’.
‘Place’ is a location which is experienced by a human- framed at a specific time/location - historically mediated through perception and memory whereas ‘Location’ is defined by computer defined coordinates.
Maureen asks about how we journey and migrate across places to survive? Migration can be motivated by the necessity to flee oppressive regimes and a lack of opportunity for growth and creative becoming? For her, the question around migration and who should be ‘allowed across borders’ is not one that distinguishes between economic or political necessity. Historically many revolutionary / religious/ ideological thinkers have sought equality, the right to freedom and emancipation from physical and mental slavery and all forms of oppression, access to knowledge and the right to roam.