1.27m x 1.02m, Acrylic on canvas.
Artisite's resident reviewer, the eminent academic Christopher P. Bacon writes:
The first thing to notice is the debt owed to Crispin December and his conceptual piece ' my ironic procrastination over ironing: 15.00 26/03/02 - 10.30 27/03/02' ).' Landsacape' is neither uninfluenced, nor is it non-pastichesque in its cheeky hats-off eclecticism. Originally, Brooks in this work set out to express a representation of her own expressions of emotion which themselves were (mis)represented in 'P.E. period 2: a bloody exercise in gym clothes from lost property' (2002, exhibited every Tuesday morning off the back of a mobile library, (location - indeterminate)). So what we are confronted with here are ghosts of the past, toe to toe with the ghost-busts from the therapeutic realm of future psychosissy-bashing future. The work of art is a threat, and we hand over our dinner moneys like snails in the face of an army of gardeners made only of table salt.
With this clear preambularistic exposition tatooed onto your mind bins, we are now in a position to look correctly at 'Landscape' with a hyper critical eye, linked as that must be to a throbbing engine of beauty receptive apprecio-cognizent horsepower. But enough of the straight talk, let's actually get lost with the work and make our language sensitive-sentiments wander around as the aestheticianate pontif Articulated Laurie implored us to do, back in the day when 'art' meant items of art work that people looked at in art galleries. Feel like you will never ever be young and happy again? That's because you won't, and 'Landscape' double determines this self indulgence through its upness and its downness. (Note that skilfully and allegorically, the painting has been given an x axis and a y axis, something shared by graphs and shit.)
In short, if this painting was a number, it would be recurring infinitely. Painted upside down, but with everything else the right way up, this is one of the artist's most physical efforts. It is a gladiatorial contest between passion and reason, in acrylics, on canvas, at you, check it now.