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During 1998-2000 I studied Russian iconography with Patrick
Staikov Bernard in Sydney. At the same time I was experimenting with paper cut-outs in the manner of late Matisse. One night,
wilst working on the paper cut-outs, a particular arrangement surprised and intrigued me. It had the quality of a musical
fugue. A fugue is an incredibly balanced, quasi-mathematical compositional structure, which repeats the main melody line with
subtle variations, throughout the piece. Being a cut-out, my paper 'fugue' was purely chromatic with no tonal variation. As
I devoloped the form the idea grew within me to attempt to realise the fugue structure in iconographic terms. The results
are before you. To me they give iconographic light a new, modernist home, from which to emanate. Through the fugue-icon an
ancient cosmology lives within a contemporary idiom.
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