Tom Hammick - Being Here

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Colour is heightened and often expressionistic. Areas of woodgrain in   the surfaces of the supports add to the patina of the images. The one compositional exception to this in the show is an image of a space station looking down on Earth and across our solar system. From this cosmic vantage point,  it’s as if, as expressed in Carl Sagan’s famous 'blue dot’ passage, when describing a photograph of a minuscule single pixel Earth caught in a sunbeam taken by Voyager 1, 3,762 millions  miles away, all of our humanity in the moment carries  pain, contemplation and joy as we reflect down below the cloud line,  on love and loss and what it is like to be human, while  spinning round and round in our particular corner of the galaxy.