The world is not black and white. It is complex, nuanced, muddled, overwhelming. It provides a dizzying barrage of images, messages and sensations. My work nudges some of this craziness away, and creates a quiet space for people to reflect and question.
My work is focused on the individual. I don't have the answers - the viewer does. Whatever their perceptions are they will find them reflected and challenged in my work.
On a formal level, the pieces are ordinary and minimal. In an image laden society I find simplicity refreshing. Through my (often obsessive) process I replicate seemingly worthless items and embed in them value and meaning. Marcel Duchamp took every day objects and made them into 'art'. I reverse the process and turn 'art' into every day objects.
Another move just about a year ago has left me with a little bit of an identity crisis in my artwork. I am still drawing the figure, altho I have yet to reconcile the classical formality of that act with a relevant message today. As such it remains more exercise than art. In the coming months I will be posting various drawings in the drawings section, and reformatting Booksculpture.
