BELGIUM
2017 Streets of Ostend, Belguim
The Crystal Ship Festival
Using his signature technique and style, the South African muralist painted this beautiful and gigantic piece which is an homage to the unknown people that we encounter in life.
Among the artists at work for the latest edition of The Crystal Ship Festival in Oostende in Belgium we find with pleasure the work of Ricky Lee Gordon. Working according to the space, the South African curator, painter amd artist has dealt with a particularly important work surface, pouring on it all his personal epictoric thematic sensibility. The themes addressed by Ricky Lee Gordon in his paintings represent a moment of deep introspective reflection. Never trivial, the artist raises doubts and ideas about our way of conceiving existence, the way we understand and relate to others. For the interpreter, each of us is interconnected and interdependent on the other, we are parts of a single and vast network that sees each of us as special and unique in its own way. It is possible to note this general theme in each of the artist's paintings, through a perfect analogy with water. The artist works through powerful visual similarities, accompanying his productions with different phrases, capable of both explaining the specific intervention and stimulating dialogue and reflection in the observer. The work painted by Ricky Lee Gordon for the Belgian exhibition reads: "Throw a drop of water in the sea to prevent it from drying up". The intervention is intended as a tribute to the unknown people we meet in the course of our existence.
Śūnyatā Studios: Seseh Bali / Nilwella Sri Lanka