The Mark of the Hand. Aubrey Williams - ACE164.6

Williams talking about reactions to his work and his feelings about them. Paintings. Thinks it’s becoming more difficult to produce the results he wants. Jungle. Kaieteur Falls. Shostakovich 3rd Symphony, Opus 20 (1981) and other paintings in the series seen in gallery. Commentary says western critics consider him part of western modern art and don’t see the Guyana and pre-Columbian influences on his work. The exception is London-based critic Guy Brett . Brett’s VO over painting. Williams answers Brett’s questions about the relation between Shostakovich and pre-Columbia imagery. Painting. Williams VO on Shostakovich’s music. Williams and Brett. The same painting. Williams said that for the first time, he "could feel colour". Waterfall. Paintings. Williams says that his intuitions about Shostakovish’s universality were validated when he came to Europe. Painting. Williams talking about isolation. Details of several paintings. Williams believes he’s still lost and complicated and finding out more about his work, wants to work more than ever, and is ever more interested in pre-Columbian artefacts. He thinks the world is not keeping up with its own technology. Painting; Williams VO. Credits.