Genetics
One theory of evolution explains the creation of new species as evolving from the physical structures available in earlier living forms. Thus evolved the legs and feet of amphibians from the fins of fish. Creation is not spontaneous generation but a cobbling together of genetic material found in the available building blocks in nature at the time.
The templates I use are like these genetic pieces. They become the compositional tools that allow me to find an aesthetic expression where change is inevitable and where order can coexist with continuous change. As I use the templates to draw they are themselves changed by the process.
From a stock of approximately a dozen template shapes that I created from a wide variety of visual and cultural sources (including my earlier paintings), I discovered new template shapes by combining parts of old ones and used these hybrids to make new compositions.
In 1996 I began the series of works you see here using just one template. This series is an offshoot of the larger body of art work, focused on how an elegance can emerge by layering multiple ordering systems-how one reads the flat surface- and how these layers can interact in dialogue with one another.
My affinity to the scientific method has led me to title the works using a cataloguing system. For example REF#2006/01 is the first work made in the year 2006.
The ideal of the template and the structure it defines is present in the hand- crafted drawing that shows significant change due to the process of creating the work. These changes accumulate over time ensuring a future filled with the example of change we see in the real world.
Sales Proceeds
David Lloyd Brown will donate 50% of the sale proceeds from this exhibition to the St. Botolph's Parish Church Restoration Appeal. For more information, contact Peter Coleman, Appeal Manager, at The Parish Office, 1 Wormgate, Boston, Lincolnshire PE21 6NP, e-mail him at appeal.boston@virgin.nett, or visit www.parish-of-boston.org.uk/restoration.htm.
American visitors to David Lloyd Brown's exhibit who wish to make a tax-deductible gift to the St. Botolph's restoration should contact Catherine Clark, President & CEO, American Friends of the Boston Stump, Inc., 4343 Washington Street, #1 Boston, MA 02131, USA or e-mail bostonstump@gmail.com. Donors of $1,000 or more are eligible for a range of benefits which can even include having your image carved permanently into the church itself!
The American Friends organization was founded in 2007 to provide capital funds and educational programming for St. Botolph's (affectionately known as "The Stump") in recognition of the church's historic connection with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the arrival of the Puritans and Pilgrims in the New World. A member of St. Botoph's church administration is a permanent member of the American Friends board of directors.
