“Laelia and the Seasons”
Alasdair McLuckie
8 Aug → 30 July 2010
Alasdair McLuckie's Laelia and the Seasons is an installation based on the idea of nature and history being a layered series of patterns that is continuously repeating itself. By being conscious of these patterns one could essentially see the future by being aware of the past.
Laelia lives in a great abyss. From her position up high she can see all things. She watched the sun endlessly chase the moon, mighty trees grow from tiny seeds till they wither and die, and decades fade into millennia. After careful scrutiny of each process she finally understands and can therefore inter-operate the universal code. Everything appears to Laelia as a beautiful mesh of repeating patterns.
Her task is to now create a new calendar. A calendar that incorporates all that she has learnt. A calendar when read correctly, can tell you the past, the present and the future.
Alasdair McLuckie’s practice explores mythology and ritual through the vernacular of aesthetic formalism. He creates meticulously detailed compositions that combine drawing with craft-based processes such as beadwork, embroidery, weaving and collage.