Charles Robb - Millwork
As the exhibition title suggests, these works are all concerned with vortices. While the crown of the head, as a cranial 'vortex', alludes to the motions of the mind within, it is also a source of heightened anxiety - the point from which baldness, that most contemporary of male fears, can spread. However, like the whorls and loops of the fingertips, the crown offers a view of the subject as foreign to others as it is to himself.
