Godfrey Levi’s artwork depicts images that are abstract and erratic. These images are rich in interpretation and that was something that I learnt while speaking to the artist and his family. 

Firstly the machine that Godfrey uses is very erratic in a sense. He places a canvas on a motor and its spins at 200-600 rotations a minute. To this he adds the paint to the canvas and lets the machine decide what image it want to show:. 

 “They talk to you. You can’t see what it is doing while it is spinning. It is spinning at anywhere between 200-600 revs a minute. You put on bits of paint around the canvas- but once it’s spinning that paint goes wherever it goes. It’s has a mind of its own…. It’s not like paining a portrait of someone or a still life- where the apple tells you it’s an apple. You can interpret it differently but ultimately it tells you that it wants to be an apple. With the spinning process you haven’t got a clue where it is going to take you. Which I like.”