Artist's Statement

By considering found objects and forgotten places, Rebecca Wombell seeks to enchant the viewer by reflecting on an ambiguous collective past to create a dialogue of memory, nostalgia, daydreams and desires.

Through a combination of drawing, light and the use of found objects a new narrative is born from a forgotten one, and overlooked, mundane details become central.

The universality of drawing and found objects creates a tangibility to the "alchemical transmutation" (...) a "dialectical process of joining earthly to unearthly experiences" (Alexander, Slideshow, 2005) of projection, and encourages empathy with the distant and nostalgic imagery.

In this renewed interpretation, obsolete subjects become re-enchanted and what was once a trace of day to day urbanity becomes magical and glorious. Introducing an intimate, yet alien tactility through this intervention with the surface connects universal and private mythology. The context of the viewer, artist and original maker collide with the works distinction between process and content. Here, the intensely crafted work is made to open up the possibly of a new narrative to its viewer, but allows space for the viewer within it.

Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And for what is actual is only actual for one time
And only for one place
(T.S ELIOT, The Wasteland and Other Poems, 1990)