Experimental screen print on silk

Acid dye formula

140 x 249cm | 55 x 98in

Purple gaze is an introspection into the way we perceive the mind. I always heard the word gaze in context of male gaze or female gaze. A more sexualised way of perceiving life, through a man or woman, external factors. But what if we were to perceive life through the power of the mind rather than taking external world as the reference of perception we take the internal world as reference.

Purple is the colour connected to the mind. Gaze is the idea to look into something in adoration, admiration and intently. So if we begin to look to the internal world with more focus, we would be able to see ourselves more clearly and then the outside world more clearly consequently. 

Purple gaze represents a dense, isolated shape of heavy texture. But it contains it, it allows the texture to take form and exist, to be seen, but it doesn’t allow it to get out of control and become all consuming. It allows the texture to be there without being the entire reference for life and negating all the clarity and space that comes in balance and harmony with and around this textured, layered experience. It uses the power and perspective of the mind to not allow the external emotional factors of life to consume and become us.