don’t cry over spilt milk
oil on canvas
52”x48”
2015

tap shoes, causing a flood, making a splash
oil on canvas
39”x63”
2015

reflecting out
oil on canvas
30”x26”
2015

trying to let go
oil on canvas
14”x18”
2015

Aimi Ferrier

Don’t cry over spilt milk.

The milk is spilt, it’s already happened, it’s too late – but it’s easy to clean up. Sealed milk bottles, safely packed together, contain the past: these paintings collect and order the past. They suggest at interiors in domestic spaces, and exteriors using bricks – deliberately obscuring, revealing and hiding things that have gone wrong. Thoughtful spaces reflect inward and outward, where rain or possibly tears become a force of energy or the gentle presence of a face. Outlines of heads are faces in dialogue, or in profile – lightly reflecting. An upturned milk bottle tries to let go of the past, to spill out – but it won’t, it is suppressed and defying gravity.