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To speak of geodes and crystals is, for some, to evoke souvenir shops and the scent of incense– yet this association forms only one, miniscule point on a timeline which stretches further than human comprehension. Take amethyst, the quartz whose spiritual symbolism espouses inner peace and clarity, but whose violet luminosity is formed in volcanic rock geodes over millions of years. Crystals offer a distillation of humanity’s relationship to temporality; their cultural meaning is markedly contemporary while their geological origins stretch deep into history. It is these contradictions and complexities of time which fascinate the California-born, New-York based artist Chason Matthams.
Matthams’s practice is characterised by two major areas of subject matter: his studies of vintage and contemporary film cameras, as well as organic forms such as shells and stones, which foreground backdrops drawn from art historical sources and self-arranged corsages of flowers. The former turn the act…
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To speak of geodes and crystals is, for some, to evoke souvenir shops and the scent of incense– yet this association forms only one, miniscule point on a timeline which stretches further than human comprehension. Take amethyst, the quartz whose spiritual symbolism espouses inner peace and clarity, but whose violet luminosity is formed in volcanic rock geodes over millions of years. Crystals offer a distillation of humanity’s relationship to temporality; their cultural meaning is markedly contemporary while their geological origins stretch deep into history. It is these contradictions and complexities of time which fascinate the California-born, New-York based artist Chason Matthams.
Matthams’s practice is characterised by two major areas of subject matter: his studies of vintage and contemporary film cameras, as well as organic forms such as shells and stones, which foreground backdrops drawn from art historical sources and self-arranged corsages of flowers. The former turn the act…
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