Fabric of Time


For Gino painting is part of human existence, a form of visual poetry that encapsulates humanity. In a "Fabric of Time" Gino attempts to express both the human experience and condition. Gino looks at the meaning of truth, when enculturated systems of belief predispose us to fit into society and its organised system of truth.  Societies use neutralising discourse to subvert truth using it both as camouflage and weapon, facilitating and supporting the individual place in society. Culminating in each societies internal reality, creating fractured perceptions off the human experience.    

Humanity currently seek their personal truth through the perspective of technology. A 24 hours a day signal a constant and immediate voice promoting internal truths. Denying questions of What makes us human?, or What is consciousness?  The human consciousness is saturated with information, and for the majority determining the difference between fact and fantasy is usually led by personal belief controlled by systems of power. A belief systems internal reality is not confined to perception but is harnessed through the control of consciousness and direction of scientific or religious belief. 

Observing these interactions we see a multiple fractured world. A world full of myriad personal beliefs opaque to others. Perhaps our simple truth is to let go of what makes us who we are, and realise life is simply a series of human connections.  


Existing in The World


Before the first cave paintings the human imperative to communicate through story telling existed. This hasn't changed and Gino asks what will happen as human development is augmented in a increasingly rational world? Will the action to freely express using a visually imaginative process become aesthetically simplified - perhaps redundant - repurposed to suit a decorative post AI world, which by its very nature can only be totalitarian. Goya and Rodin would say look for "truth" and Gino does this.

    • Identity


    Who we are and what we stand for have become existential dillemnas for the human condition. Science has created choice and highlighted the unbalanced

    chemical makeup of humans in contrast to the historical view of gender identity. Genetic technologies enabling sex selection of the human embryo demonstrates how closely associated genders are. Usually the physical characteristics are spread throughout the human genome which is made up of 46 chromosomes that each contain hundreds or thousands of genes. Generally the male genes are turned off in the female and the female gene is turned off in the male.


    But we know from human experience that feelings of sex is something that is triggered both externally and internally. Science has changed the parameters and given choice to the many people who struggle for years to come to terms with their gender identity.  This story of human evolution  creates much hostility for very obvious reasons, when a baby is first born everyone wants to know is it a boy or girl? and at that stage the answer is very straight forward and acceptance is very easy with no social fallout.


    Breaking the social expectation usually creates hostility and rejection and notions of gender choice is no different. Creating or defining gender identity is fraught with social, scientific and religious challenges.           

    • Mum


    We originate from a union filled with all sorts of emotions. But the mothers strength to endure, support, protect and raise a child comes from within and without. Experience and environmental conditions "who we are" and "who we become" is only part of the story. A story which goes as far back as our consciousness has been framed and guides us in the here and now and continues into the future.


    "So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp"

    "but what we feel is the wind in our faces."


    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Asleep


    When sleeping we are condensing human experience allowing the body to recharge. Without sleep the brain becomes disorientated and its ability to process information is compromised and our grasp of reality is altered. Sleep is essential for the human psyche a healthy body and to stay alert. It organises consciousness, enabling humans to understand their place in society.


    Sleep is unique to the individual and orientates the internal and external universe of that individual, a part of the human condition. 

    Smoke


    Smoking is a long standing tradition which many people do even though their are serious risks to health. The health concerns are real and those who use tobacco are aware of them. it is a ritual which becomes a part of an individuals life and it reflects individual traits of the smoker. It is both a lifestyle choice and habit that satisfies taste and replenishes the central nervous systems supply of of psychoactive chemicals absorbed through the respiratory system entering the lungs bloodstream then into the central nervous system.


    A drug of recreation with over a billion people using it. 

    • Lived Experience 123 ++ Heads


    Gino paints head studies to create a living memory of the individually lived experience. Gino sees this time stretched multiple project as a document of the human face its infinite variety encapsulating many aspects of the human condition and their lived experience represented as a melody of time and history.


    It is also an historical document representing a section of people Gino invited to come and sit for a painting. These are not commissions but a collaborative diary. The multiple work has been shown in different exhibitions, as Gino paints another head to add to the work the showing of the multiple is always formatted differently being redefined by the adding of another life. Often a head does become a painting existing which exists in it's own space.


    Below are details of the multiple

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