“Lying weather seeps into DNA, and the dream is not easily erased away”

‘Incorporating materials like paper, tissue and Perspex, Alex Hamilton’s work takes in both the urban and suburban landscape, creating what looks like a multi-layered topographical map."
Briony Downes ‘Alex Hamilton creates landscapes from the built environment’ Art Guide Australia | October 19 2023
“Lying weather seeps into DNA, and the dream is not easily erased away” started by “finishing” or “clarifying” a photocopied photo of the long gone commercial furniture and tools outlet “Masters” using eraser, marks, paint and enframents with repurposed perspex strips. Giving form to this photo's excess of meaning—to what was slipping through its intention and control, I see a parallel to the process itself of showing art. If what you show is art, like the vanished Masters outlet it's not really supposed to exist within our market/political system, but like political protest certain allowances can be made for the moment. While we can’t buy what art conveys, even if we think we're seeing and sometimes buying only furniture, we can’t escape from not always being transparent to ourselves. Our actions, including our aesthetic choices, often carry more meaning than we authorize at any one time. Like public protest (genuine) art is allowed to exist in certain interstitial somewhat contradictory places such as museums, artspaces, some art schools, fairs, and commercial art galleries. Even when “Lying weather” is infused within the basic premise of our biological survival, “Lying weather seeps into DNA, and the dream is not easily erased away” shows we can make beautiful and positive statements with the potential of our existence.