The Pantheist / blood to dust
As a filmmaker Roger Thorp has collaborated with painter Jesse Leroy Smith over the last year on a project exploring shifting creeds and ethnicity. On the closing night of The Waking Path they previewed ‘blood to dust’, a series of 7 animated paintings made on copper. From abstract colour human heads emerge, defined through cultural and religious iconography only to dissolve amidst relentless pigment and light. The films formed a projected installation in the Turrell Skyspace.
