Emma Smith. Dispatch
March 2021

“Dispatch represents a pivot in my practice, though the subject remains the same–the nebulous nature of states of emergency. The treatment of the forms is slowed, subsumed by the surface, subsumed by the surrounds, as if a momentary flash of light on a bank of smoke. Like smoke the shapes make little sense close up, it’s from a distance they begin to gather. The works are small, the scale of the forms might well be too, but then again, they might be monstrous, either way our precariousness is palpable and close, floating forms anticipate the rain.”