Maze Fragment (When time rests, the moments settle together), 2019

Gifted by the artist

Woking, The Lightbox, Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, 22 June – 25 August 2019;
Woking, The Lightbox, Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection, 11 August – 20 September 2020

This piece from Anthony’s Atlas Series responds to Michael Ayrton’s sculpture Maze Music, held by The Ingram Collection.  It was made for Parallel Lines: Drawing & Sculpture, an exhibition at The Lightbox of work by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors, made in response to key 20th century sculptures from The Ingram Collection.

“My works are concerned with tangles, lines, the maze of words or the labyrinth of time. I studied the myth of Daedalus – the greatest artist and the creator of the Labyrinth. This artwork shows a journey of lines across the paper which could be geographical contours, a distorted music stave with tumbling notes, or walking tracks in parallel. The lines lose their way along the route and become more haphazard. My drawings are created by burning the surface of calligraphy paper. This drawing rests on a mirror backing: It reflects the light, dark, and faces in the room as little moments becoming entangled in the puzzle. I called this work ‘Maze Fragment’ because it is part of a large series in which the lines span across 50 artworks, all existing now in parallel in different places – a fragmented map.”

Michael Ayrton’s sculpture Maze Music is concerned with the maze’s maker and its occupants. In Ayrton’s book The Maze Maker Daedalus says “I never understood the pattern of my life, so that I have blundered through it in a maze.” By creating her work in response to Ayrton, Anthony invites his figure as an occupant in the twisting maze of pathways.