Linda Sgoluppi

Canto de Terra is from a series of paintings that are manifestations of abstract and silent topographical landscapes, aerial views of locations plotting an almost atavistic memory of place. An energy-splashed colour chaos of paint interrupts and belies this aerial view of deliberate and choreographed surface, yet both are held captive by grid-like markings. The paintings title is imprinted and embedded in its surface, stamped and archived as chorographical sign of survey, each repeated word functions as painted mark, image, and as ambiguous interruption to the landscapes silence. Although there is a silent imperative, the contained in the painting, sounds forms, reverberate willy-nilly in the brains language centre, words insist on being read. Ultimately these paintings are not images of actual topographical landscapes therefore they are maps, of terra forming with the charting of familiar and unfamiliar territory, an activity that is demanded by each new and pristine canvas.