‘Roadkill’ concerns itself with the passing of time, interruption, and the human’s conditional despair for the unknown. Conceptualisation for this piece rose from my obsession with roadkill and recording every encounter with such. Travelling in a continuum and becoming interrupted by the unexpected demise of life coexisting around me inflicted reflections of mind versus the present sense. There are layers to our reality which overlap and disappear (unnoticed), as humans we yearn to know what lies in the future, beyond one’s death, however, when met with such we are halted only temporarily. Concept (thought and mind) indicates an infinity of possibility, of the unknown; yet percept (sense, the now) indicates that at a distant point, pieces of reality converge as a result of time passing. Using vibrancy and violence of strokes, the piece is an unconventional representation of the life filled with subconscious despair, the self as a vessel for constructing a didactic lived reality.
