To enable me to fix my attention on any one of these symbols I was to imagine that I was looking at the colors as I might see them on a moving picture screen

Rickards’ attention is particularly drawn to natural phenomena such as thunder, mirage, and the aurora borealis. She closely examines these occurrences – and how we experience them – through moving image, audio and installation works. The artist’s scrupulous and investigative methodology involves the detailed deconstruction of her chosen subjects. Breaking down the auditory, visual or spatial relationships with atmospheric phenomena into minute parts for individual examination, her intense artistic gaze scrutinises each particle before reconstruction, often in an alternative form, through language, gesture or musical performance.