PHIL LAMBERT
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  • Portfolio
    • Charcoal / Nocturne series 2019
    • Soil
    • Rewilding Turf studies 2019
    • Whitehead Bricks
    • Blackboard Series
    • Unnatural Selection Projects
    • The Luscher Series
    • Dotty Illusion Motif
    • Physiognomy Projects
  • Workshops
    • WCSS22
    • ARTICULTURE and Art CENA
    • Soil Security Programme Conference 2019
    • Heolddu, Prince's trust and ESCRI project 2014
  • Commissions
    • Tyler Mural
    • Claudia Bunk Bed Mural
    • Soil Security Programme Conference 2019
    • Ysgol Pencae Welsh Children’s Characters mural 2018
    • Ysgol Pencae Mural 2018
  • Consultancy
  • Writing
    • CU arts
  • Perception pieces
  • Evolution and Chance
  • Archive
    • Anblickspiel
    • Bill Taylors Brain
    • Every Witch Way
    • Studio work 2013-2014
    • Observational Works 2005 -
    • Miscellaneous
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Blackboard Series

Works that document my exploration of straight line and compass geometry.

My interest in geometry is based on a search for fundamentals and the hope that through understanding the drawn basis of math it may change my understanding of the world. In this vein, working on the geometry inherent in nature, I have begun consider what a strange notion '0' is. As nothing is every really gone in nature. Also, how '1' could be considered as the largest number, the whole. Perhaps number systems influence society's philosophy towards the environment / nature?  Could the abstraction of the additive decimal system with its infinite growth and the existence of '0' be a part of our removal from nature?

The paintings are works in progress, with each layer being rubbed out with a thin veil of black paint. The effect is to build a look which is similar to an old school blackboard. A history of learning...

Picture
1-3 2016 Oil on Canvas 40cm x 51cm
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