Singularity; Variations

Stephen Green

Stephen Green on ‘Singularity; Variations’

In this series of drawings, I explore further the basic concept behind Porth Annwn Variations which is an attempt to visualise ideas arising from reading stories of travel to other worlds.

The earlier series of work was concerned with stories of travel to Annwn, a mythological world in ancient Welsh folklore. The stories were collected in the twelfth-century from a considerably older tradition.

The current work is loosely based on descriptions of travel between parallel universes in the Fractured Europe sequence of novels by Dave Hutchinson. He describes small disturbances in the landscape that hover on the edge of visibility; these are the points at which it is possible to access routes to another universe.

In my attempts to render them in a visible form, I play with the conventions of drawing, using a variety of material on paper. The marks, tone, and colour are intended as…