STEVE COPE

“To augment the experience of a vast space I use a very small format.  I am fascinated with reducing the bigness of our worldly experience to something very small, something that fits in our hand and I wonder how this changes or heightens our perception. The fascination could be that we can see it all in one glance. We don’t have to see it as a collection of parts, but as a full thing, solid and complete. Perhaps being able to see the entire landscape so completely gives us a feeling of discovery, as if we are peering into a different world strangely similar to our own.

The ring is like a memory or visit, a longing.  It also adds something very synthetic to what would be a pretty natural image.  It taps us on the shoulder and reminds us this is a painting.”