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- Mary Beatty
Mary
Beatty
EQUILIBRIUM
Using colour through paint with photography, video and sound supplemented to highlight the calming rhythm of the sea, while the figurative surfer exhibits a literal sense of balance.
This series of work examines the quest for life balance. The Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu advises: “we have the desire to achieve balance, and to keep it.” Routines are held for 48 weeks normally and you force yourself to break this routine or take a holiday. Formative memories of days at the beach and a reluctance to recall the mundane ephemeral routines provoke questions of reality. This shows the contrast between actuality of normal life and the ideal beach side quality time. Regrouping and realigning can be achieved during the interruption to routine. Here the artist wishes to signify the essential need for breaks to enhance life balance. Beatty tempts the viewer to look into themselves in response to what they see.
This form of art as a tool, is reinforced with logic as Newton’s Law of Motion and Equilibrium states: “Everybody continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it” F=m.a