Gallery: Rays Of Color

Gabriel Dawe creates superb mixed media installations. Most of them are entitled 'Plexus'...

"...which literally means the network of nerves or vessels informing and sustaining the body. It was the perfect name because it not only refers to the connection of the body with its environment, but it also relates directly to the intricate network of threads forming the installation itself, and to the tension inherent in the thread, vibrating with an almost tangible luminosity. Plexus evokes the intrinsic order within the apparent chaos that exists in nature. A hidden codification breaks through, piercing our daily perceptions, seeming to create both matter and the immaterial with colorful rays of light."(gabrieldawe.com)

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"One of the first ideas I began developing, which comes directly from the theme of that first show, is related to the human need for shelter. I decided to create an architectural structure by using the core material of clothing. I realized that among the many intricacies of the raison d’être of both fashion and architecture is the capacity to offer shelter to the body. (...) I had the desire to use gradations of color. It just made sense to subtly blend colors into a fine progression, and it was only later that I realized this was connected to the way light blends in the sky." (gabrieldawe.com) 

"The fineness of the thread makes these installations ethereal, almost immaterial, yet not, almost disappearing to the eye and leaving a color haze behind. This color mist alludes to a symbolic quest to materialize light, to give it density, so that I can offer the viewer an approximation of things otherwise inaccessible to us- a glimmer of hope that brings us closer to the transcendent, to show that there can be beauty in this messed up world we live in. Light is composed of the different colors of the spectrum. Here, it also comes to symbolize unity and wholeness." (gabrieldawe.com)

And look at this dope installation from 2 perspectives:

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