While attention is frequently given to the initial steps an artist may take towards a creative goal rather less attention is given to the point at which the artist calls halt. With Diokno Pasilan’s paintings we sense that provisionality, a certain open-mindedness, is not merely an inevitable by-product of art-making but that it is front and centre and provides, in essence, their core meaning. We can intuit that they’ve been on a journey from some perhaps vague idea through all kinds of ‘identity crises’ until they arrive at the point we see them. But knowing about that journey – and it’s all there in the work – the fragments of images, the rough evidence of earlier work – suggests perhaps that the paintings could go on further, mutating and evolving endlessly.
Excerpt written by Geoff Wallis.
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