painters TUBES® have known Mark's work for some years. On the following pages are a selection of the abstract paintings he has produced since 2019. The concept behind the images are post-modern in essence, Mark has creates Art which belongs to the new paradigm of the twenty first century. Here we present his thoughts and theories about his painting ideas and process (extract from an essay in 2019).
Wonders and imperfections of space time compression theories.
(edited/ written by Mark David Lloyd)
This series of painting began in 2013 after reading David Harvey’s -The Condition of Postmodernity 1989. In his work based on earlier writings by Karl Marx in the theory of the "annihilation of time and space”. Harvey discusses the ideas of space time compression and that due modern technology and internationalisation are experience of time is accelerated and that this “acceleration destroys space and compresses the time in ways of perceiving reality” Virilio 2001.
Doreen Massey also discusses David Harvey’s ideas about time-space compression in relation to globalisation and its effect on our society and she stated that; “our world is "speeding up" and "spreading out", time-space compression is more prevalent than ever as internationalisation takes place. Cultures and communities are merged during time-space compression due to rapid growth and change, as "layers upon layers" of histories fuse together to shift our ideas of what the identity of a "place" should be” Massey 1994.
These ideas fascinated me and seem to be fully realised in the age of the internet. I began working on a way to visualise these ideas in paint. After a discussing with a friend of mine who is computer technician he told me about a computer program that if you input a digital movie into the software program, the program compresses the visual imagery of the film (2-3 hours) into one visual image still.
This seemed a visual artefact of time being compressed and had a visual similar appearance to a barcode. The process on the software program to compress the movie into a still was quick, I wanted to subvert and play the concept of time in image making by replicating the image in paint which would be a very slow process.
The whole methodology and process exploited the idea of ‘time in image making’. I realised by using films/movies that posited ideas about how technology is changing our perception of time and reality I could add further meaning. Also fascinating is that the films/movies are figurative and realism and by processing the data through software the image became abs
