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“The most important\u00a0parts\u00a0of a\u00a0film, are the\u00a0mysterious parts\u2014beyond the reach of reason and language”<\/em>
\n– Stanley Kubrick 1975<\/p>\n

‘If humans are the ego, Animals are the Id’<\/em> – Furr<\/p>\n

‘Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same’<\/em> – Foucault<\/p>\n

‘I love the cooing of the wood pigeon<\/em>
\n But hate the dripping of the tap<\/em>
\n Is there a world of difference between the domsticated beast<\/em>
\n and the savage wild cat?’<\/em>\u00a0– Furr<\/p>\n

Wildlife. Both animal works started with experiences. In the winter mornings I would come downstairs and my silver tabby cat ‘Chunky’ would be waiting outside the glass door to the garden. One of my favourite books is ‘Wuthering Heights’ – Cathy at the window. It would still be pitch black and he would be waiting patiently, for me to be fed looking at me, slightly malevolently with all the mysticism of a cat from Egyptian times. I measured the window of the door and this became the dimensions for the canvas which would become the ‘portal’ for all the works.<\/p>\n

‘Free as a bird – I saw the Truth’ was inspired by a very clear dream I had. A white owl appeared to me on a branch and fixed me with it’s gaze. A gaze I couldn’t ignore. It’s wing constantly changed with\u00a0 a mryiad of colours. To me it was like a symbol of ultimate truth and \u00a0Freedom. There is an element of revelation in the viewing of these paintings\u00a0perhaps in that many people don’t notice the cat until their eye falls upon it at the bottom of the compostion. In some respects they are\u00a0like totem animals.<\/p>\n

Both these paintings are possibly about the gaze or\u00a0the look and ‘Das Nichts’.<\/p>\n

‘If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.’\u2013 William Blake<\/i><\/p>\n

The black rectangle is a void, a hallowed space, a barrier, a zone ‘beyond the register of naming’ a place that can’t be represented. It could be partly inspired by the obelisk or an appropriation of the Black Square of Malevich. It could be an attempt by me at making the abstract and the figurative cohabit a space. A soul in a void.<\/p>\n

\u2018In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. \u2018\u2013 William Blake<\/i><\/p>\n

I wanted the surface of the painting to be like the barrier between two worlds and the paintings to have an ancient ‘presence’. The cat that gazes at me – ‘Dweller on the Threshold’ the title is taken from the theosophical concept. The owl that fixes it’s eyes on me. They are sort of exorcism paintings for me.<\/p>\n

The black is ‘Das Nichts’ or the Universe ‘built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.’ – Paul Valery<\/p>\n

Examples of ‘On the Threshold – Diamond edition are viewable in the permanent collection of the Hotel Cafe Royal London and 45 Park Lane London -Dorchester Collection permanent collection.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Christian Furr 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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