William Mackrell, Cynara Scolymus, 2023

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In Cynara Scolymus, William Mackrell adopts the artichoke as a metaphor for life and death. He gathers up and scatters the remains of the vegetable over sheets of paper, then buries buds under a blanket of metallic paint. Lifting the paper the buds fall to the floor revealing the residue of their placement. The resulting work appears to move in and out of focus, shifting from light to dark the work offers a sense of infinite depth suggesting a dreamscape or astrological backdrop. Our eyes move across the surface of the paper in search of clues but the work ultimately refuses any true resolution.