Reflections in the Pond

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By Gareth Bunting
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£350.00

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Dimensions (HxWxD):

29.5 × 21 × 0.1 cm

Materials:

indian ink and acrylic paint on Fabriano paper

Primary Medium:

Painting

Small
2025
Signed on Back
Requires Framing
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This work centres on a solitary female figure wearing a VR headset, grounded and still, her body rendered with clarity against the page. She occupies a present, physical space, yet her gaze is directed elsewhere—into a mediated, constructed reality that promises immersion while quietly separating her from the world around her. Above her head floats an organic, fractal-like formation of ink and paint. It reads as both mental landscape and visual noise: a cloud of sensation, data, memory, and imagination. Within this mass, drawn reeds reflected in water dissolve into looping, abstract marks that resemble writing without forming a readable language. Nature and notation blur, as if the environment itself is attempting to speak, but in a syntax that resists translation. The work explores the tension between embodied experience and virtual perception. While the figure engages with technology, the imagery above suggests an alternative intelligence—one rooted in organic systems, repetition, and reflection rather than code. Language appears not as something spoken or typed, but as something sensed: emerging from water, rhythm, and pattern. The piece questions where meaning now resides—inside devices, within the mind, or in the quiet, overlooked gestures of the natural world—and what is lost or transformed as attention shifts from one to the other.

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