Feb
16
A complexity it excludes or muffles
Hayley Tompkins; Days Series 2007
Courtesy The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd © Hayley Tompkins
Gouache on wood, spoon
3x13.1x2.1cm
Hayley’s work is risky. Perhaps, you think, this is just a piece of stick with some silver gouache and photographic trimmings on it? Well, that’s exactly what it is. But at the same time it’s a perfect index of a set of lost decisions, the shadow of a sensibility formed by all the gratuitous complexity of contemporary life, a complexity it excludes or muffles.
- David Musgrave on Hayley Tompkins’s Days Series (2007), Tate Etc., 21, Spring 2011. <http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue21/watercolourattenborough.htm>
AW: We were with you for the lost decisions, shadow of a sensibility and muffled complexity bit. But you lost us with the thing about its being a piece of stick with paint on it. Talk sense man!
