Tom Blake: thoughts are metallic, they melt in saltwater (expired event)

Artist Tom Blake reflects on the potential for the chaotic within apparent moments of stillness.

With a title drawn from a line by Etel Adnan, thoughts are metallic they melt in salt water is a rhythmic, reflective exhibition comprising new video works, cyanotypes, wire drawings, and de-silvered mirrors. Approaching the gallery space as if it were an eddy within a flowing stream, this body of work evokes themes of opacity, disintegration, touch, reflection and the potential for the chaotic within apparent moments of stillness.

Within the eddy there are opaque areas where clouds of silt have been stirred up by the moving water, along with areas where the silt comes to rest, combining with other fragments. These aspects of the eddy become a kind of loose choreographic score, or series of notations, guiding the presentation of the exhibition across the space.