Arno Morland

“Being human is hard work. There’s a lot of detail to get through and a very firm deadline. For the most part, you just have to keep your head down and get it done. There isn’t much time to stand back and take in the bigger picture. Unless, of course, it’s your job. There are people like that. Take me, for instance. I have to zoom out until we all become small in the distance. Then I have to report what I see. Think of a drone hovering far above the admin. It’s not really that I see anything new or different from there. You don’t grow infra-red sensors when you use a wide-angle lens. It’s something else. Something more like the way you look at things. You see all those hot little explosions of love and ambition, fear and elation that drive us onward, inward, together and apart and a compassionate smile inadvertently forms around the corners of your mouth. How can one not love this messy humanity: it’s indefatigable striving; it’s restless feeling about in the dark; it’s child-like hope? We are tragic, comical and glorious! I send you these sculptures and paintings from over there. Because I love you. Because I want you to know that when you look backwards and forwards at your life like it’s a movie you’ve seen before, you are not out of place. You belong in the world. You are one of us. We’re in this together.” - Arno Morland