Describing the intent of the work on view, Watson explains:
It seems to me that life is an entanglement of stories, all intertwined and joined to make a grand creation. We make a story each day and during the process incorporate objects into the fabric of the narrative. Daily mundane things or special treasures, these things rub up against our life and take on meaning. Every time an artist makes a piece he is telling a story. I choose to tell my story with words and images. Together the image and text combine to present a portrait of the object.
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Artist’s Statement Corridor Gallery 2016
It seems to me that life is an entanglement of stories, all intertwined and joined to make a grand creation. We make a story each day and during the process incorporate objects into the fabric of the narrative. Daily mundane things or special treasures, these things rub up against our life and take on meaning. They might describe us so that a collection of them make themselves into our biography. They might have a historical story to tell. These meanings make life interesting and without meaning objects are dumb and silent, and life is flat and rather colourless.
Some of the ‘treasures’ are historical remnants. The time they inhabited is past, but still they survive. They are historical footprints in the snow, small leftovers in our progress through time. We can look forward into our continued life with these objects and backwards into the time tunnel of when they were made and used. Often they are a connection to the people who lived before us.
I want to tell a story about these objects.
Every time an artist makes a piece he is telling a story. I choose to tell my story with words and images. Together the image and text combine to present a portrait of the object.