Channels of Communication (2023)
Using pen and ink collages, Komikka Patton layers the mystical and grounded, inviting us to see beyond the cyclicality of our lives and to embrace the unknown and unknowable.
"Channels of Communication honours human and spiritual worlds, a bridge between divinity and humanity, and a symbolic crossroads. The work features pen and ink collaged moments, scenes, and possibilities meeting at an equilibrium of contentment, deep understanding, acceptance, and a welcoming into the abyss. Here reside exploration and play where light, shadow, matter, time, space, and force meet paper, paint, and ink.
The work transitions to a moment in time, a moment of action, a split-second occurrence of surrendering to the unknown, and as a consequence, gaining more clarity about what was once unseen within the self and beyond. It layers the mystical with the grounded, often weaving in slivers of the human experience, protostars, the occult, time, and a recurring motif of the sacred feminine as a foundational piece to discuss occult concepts such as our cosmic birth, death, and nature. It invites the viewer to see beyond all repeating cycles in our inner worlds and their outward reflections, to embrace uncharted territories and ask questions about humanity's existence, universal laws, cosmic powers and forces, and the universe's actualisation. Through these conversations, we observe and participate in the art of being."
—Komikka Patton
