Brenda Flannery ‘Time out of Time’

Remote places are associated with a quality of reminiscence, a connection to ‘pastness.’ The remoteness and solitude of the images are a direct reflection of the solitude that can be found in such remoteness. The remote is a place out of place and nostalgia is a longing for a time out of time.

The light of the Sun begins a new solar cycle at Winter Solstice. In winter everything lies dormant. Winter Solstice is the great stillness before the Sun’s strength builds, and days grow longer. It is a time of rest and reflection before the awakening and the slow build toward brighter days.

The work is not intended as a representation of a specific place in time but rather to question what it is that attracts us to the imagery in the artwork where we can transcend time and space. Rather than physical rootedness, is it an idealised sense of time rather than place that we seek?