Simon Hitchens
Dark Shadow Falling, 2021
Concrete
105 x 64 x 210 cm
Copyright The Artist
The natural world is an endless source of inspiration to me, and a direct tool I use to create my work. To be able to comprehend the deep-time of rocks...
The natural world is an endless source of inspiration to me, and a direct tool I use to create my work. To be able to comprehend the deep-time of rocks is to a shine a light upon our own short lifespan and to begin to understand the transient but interconnected nature of what we share with the world. Made from concrete this rough textured object is a craggy, cave-like cast of an ancient and now absent boulder. Giving presence to the negative, liminal space of shadows, this wedge-shaped form is that of the rock’s midday shadow.