Month: May 2018

  • Self Portrait with Texture

    Self Portrait with Texture

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    I’m struggling to pin down when this was produced. It was painted using as its reference a Polaroid picture (which I still have) circa 1998/9. I barely remember making this. By the look of it, there was originally a highly textured abstract piece on the board, which presumably I didn’t like. Or perhaps I just…

  • Spaceship #1

    Spaceship #1

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    The theme here, if itโ€™s not obvious, is the relationship between nature, randomness, mechanism and determinism. The title is not whimsical. The 6 cell motif that dominates the half of the painting is a representation of a single state of a cellular automaton, one of infinite number possible, from Conwayโ€™s Game of Life. This particular…

  • Manga Mannequin Considering Jumping Into the Abyss

    Manga Mannequin Considering Jumping Into the Abyss

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    Here is a picture of my Manga Mannequin stood staring into the abyss. He seems fearful, hesitant, afraid even. He also has no face to tell us this with. No voice and no story. These Manga Mannequins do suggest a story, or perhaps a character, or element of culture, or something like that. There is strength…

  • Finished

    Finished

    It won’t find it hard to believe that I find it difficult to focus when on conference calls. A random floating piece of dust catching a mote of sunlight is enough to draw me a away from the matter in hand. The ceaseless distraction that is the social web is like a black hole sucking…