Rosalind Goss
July 8, 1953 – January 13, 2023
Through time and space
June 30 – August 7, 2016
Pictures are moments caught in time. They distill time and space, making the impermanent permanent. They remind us of things past, and of our own mortality.
When I was younger, time felt limitless. Today that is no longer the case. I used to believe that time heals, but I no longer believe that either. Our perceptions change. Time is subjective. It can stand still or fly by. It can feel full or empty. We can bide our time or we can race against it. It is a continuous unfolding of past, present and future.
We move through time and space as ephemeral beings. In this work, I chose to represent the linear movement of time through space with multiple horizontal lines that drift in and out of view. The figures that appear emerge from my experiences. These pictures represent my personal stories, moments of time remembered. Moments of connection or solitude, of strength or fragility, of freedom or confinement, of stagnation or growth.
Drawing is always at the base of my work. I love its immediacy and the directness of its gestures. I aim to keep my work understated and minimalist.
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock.”
William Shakespeare, Richard II
