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Sublime Merge 2.2091 instal2/15/2024 ![]() Jonathan Michael Ray was born in High Wycombe, UK and has been based in West Cornwall since 2018. ![]() His work alludes to the sublime power that inanimate material and objects can contain when we give them space, time and authority to do so. By layering and combining material, he is interested in looking beyond the surface of a purely physical existence and breaking down the institutions by which we are taught to see and experience the world. He regularly uses found objects and images imbued with their own histories, as well as material direct from the landscape, appropriating their symbolism while creating a new context and meaning. ![]() A practice comprising of stained glass, photography, sculpture, print, drawing, video and installation, much of his work is deeply connected to his surroundings. Jonathan Michael Ray’s ‘mono no aware’ artworks examine the multilayered histories, fictions and beliefs assigned to artefacts, materials and the places he encounters. Medium : found glass bottles, fossil, coin, thimble, stereoscopic image, slate, glass, steel Title : Pulvis et Umbra Sumas (We Are But Dust and Shadow) ![]()
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