Thread Suns

IONE & MANN is pleased to present 'Thread Suns', a two person exhibition with new and recent work by Anna Higgins and Aimée Parrott. Working in creative dialogue within their distinctive practices, the artists engage in a rhythmic conversation between materiality, colour and composition at the threshold between the tangible and what is intuitively felt, exploring the experiential wonder of a boundaryless world.

Each measurement plotted, somehow cell by cell, from hair to hair, each follicle and every microcosmic separate part, formed, substantiated, transubstantiated and each movement forwards a part of a universal measurement in several directions. Cosmic and infinitesimal, intergalactic and intramolecular. The width of a mite on a cat’s dander, how deeply a nipple can be pushed into moss, dapple on the water, the height of the moon. Forms and lines fracture out from themselves, wild, solemn, no central core, no hub, crossing, crisscrossing like a graph or chart or some kind of web, beneath the topsoil, damp in the earth way down beneath the tree, the ferns, that pool, and yes, across the light, the air as well, existing only to continue. Directionless and relentless. The ground humming, incessantly humming, fizzing, crackling, the graph lines following then bisecting a ley, traversing a burrow. And the surface, the lambency of things and an entire electromagnetic spectrum of colour is no more or less than the invisible, the sub-terrestrial, the fungal. It’s the same. Instincts and impulses, floral, faunal, the pleasure of a certain pillow of earth, the meaning of a gentle breeze, a reflection, the plant nodding into the sunlight. The fur shivers and with the same breath, the dandelion seed delicately bests a vortex, just like that, right across the pond. Spores born in the airs that carry them, particles in the light and the light itself, always together, never and the same.

Text by Paul Becker