This series is a reimagining of older photographs I’ve taken with more recent polaroid’s put over top—a visual translation of the conversations an artist has with themselves, with their old work, with what they’re doing now. Everything I’ve created, whether it be visual art, sculptures, or poetry—they’re participating in one conversation, stacking up meaning.
My deepest influences are found equally within the surrealists and Outsider Art pieces such as street preacher James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. I approach painting with a conscious rawness. With reference to Outsider Art, my artistic insights meet the paint and paper with technical and emotional directness.
The digital photographs represent two series of still life images for back lit prints, Hard Flesh and Fashioned.
I’ve wandered the globe as a travel journalist for decades, often watching the world and its people from behind; whether in the hub of London, a backstreet in Havana, or alone from a window in a squat hotel room in Paris; whether with a 35 mm camera or an iPhone.
The series results from numerous conversations about nomadic life and its expressions, as experienced by the artists on the move. Within the paradigm of continuous “new beginnings” and “ending chapters,” we are often finding ourselves, short-term and long-term, within the “grey” zone both legislation-wise and concerning the sense of belonging, with “black and white” phases, and with bright patterns of events
I primarily use acrylic paint, latex paints, inks, papers, charcoal and alcohol inks for my paintings. My images contain many diverse layers of meaning, from the universal to the specific and personal. Many of my works are abstract.
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