Simon Hitchens - Genesis
There is an uncanny simplicity to this film like the meditative calm found in a Zen garden, where displaced rocks become almost body-like. What at first appears to be a benign boulder sat in an arcane landscape slowly begins to take on human qualities: a meditation on place and being.
Simon Hitchens
Simon focuses on the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human and people’s relationship with impermanence. He sees the perceived disconnect between geological and human worlds as harmful to the planet and our psyche. Rock, in its raw and natural state, is the material backbone to the work. He is aware of its significant as the prime material to make sculpture and geologically as the material which supports life on earth. Through sculpture, film and drawing, his work questions differences between animate and inanimate, more specifically rock and flesh, mountain and body; exploring themes of time, transience and transcendence that gently teases out an understanding of the human condition; our place within the world.