TAPIR

SYNTAX | Shannon Castor

My new body of work focuses on semiotics of color and memory. Icon, index, and
symbol, what is the resemblance, signifier of the signified, and representation of memory through
the lens of color. How does color catalyse or awaken personal and collective narrative? Along
what scope do these translations of color to meaning occur?
In the installation of this work, I want the paintings positioned together to function like a metallic
surface, so that different angles of viewing encourage a reading pattern that changes with and
traces the viewer’s own relationship to color as they move. Akin to words shaping thought
through speaking, color is metabolized into meaning. It is an immersive experience of noticing.
Like swarm behavior pulsing, it travels defined and undefined commutes to retrieve and recall
memory.
The works on paper arranged closely together with corners acting as disruptions or glitches to the
fluidity of organic brushwork represent cells in a honeycomb or units within a text, a map of
single and mass networks connecting and reciprocating. It invites a pixelated perspective. An
aberration of color, pattern, and sign questioning the embodiment of observation as an
acquisition of knowledge and if this knowledge is instinctual, by association, or simply felt.