Image Copyright the Artist. Photo by Matthew Hollow. Portrait by Moriah Ogunbyi
Max Boyla
“After testing how the ink looked, I somewhat emulated its colour in a mix of dyes and acrylics, and then combined the seaweed ink into a kind of alchemic, hot dye bath. I generally use satin as the toxic and synthetic base for my work and was interested in the friction that played out while using the natural seaweed ink. It produces a wonderfully elusive colour, shifting like the tides as the daylight changes throughout the day in my studio. I clamp dyed a pattern of stars into the painting and titled the work after a song from The Horrors second album. I like to load paintings with an openness, considering multiple interpretations and dualities, but it's what people bring to the work themselves that gives it life. I think a lot about emanation, cause and affect, and I hope collaborative ecological farming projects like this can get the support they need to keep making positive changes to our environment and how we choose to interact with it.”
- Max Boyla