Wednesday 29 April 2020

Bleak House























I am so privileged and happy to be part of 'Bleak House' -- a series of magazines and downloadable pdfs -- curated by Brad Feuerhelm and to be published by VOID publishers in Athens. To be working with the best, alongside the best ... it's all one can ask for.

Monday 27 April 2020

Covid project. Notes






































This project started as about wildflowers ... became about particle physics ... realised now they are simply different diagrams for the same feeling.

Saturday 18 April 2020

that day my whole world was in the sea

























35mm. Glass. Hair.  (Baby floating in mother floating) Something from new project ...

Thursday 16 April 2020

hair in the projector






































In this time of lockdown I'm thinking about this theory about Ozu's characters. Indoors, they define each other while it is only when outdoors, contrasted against vast mountains and skies, they see their true (insignificant) place in the cosmos ...  More about this here

Friday 10 April 2020

her hair where the moon used to be






































New Work (with Brad Feuerhelm and Void publishers, Athens) ... 'And one is left with a feeling of sadness, too. It is not because Ozu's films are honest about life, and about death as well; it is because these people, these moments are gone. ... this universal feeling of the transience, of the mutability and beauty of all life ...' NYT 26.09.82.

Thursday 9 April 2020

late spring, early summer






































New work. ... our lives steeped in a sort of universal but unnameable emptiness; feelings so complex that it’s often only in the visual, the 'pillow shots' of objects, landscapes, and nature, that we understand them. A vase, cherry blossoms, the wind, the waves ... The material beauty of nature always reminding us of the quick death of beautiful flowers or, as Deleuze calls it, the ‘natural forgetting’ of life. The presence of a murderous virus floating through the cherry blossoms (and my own longings and regrets in the face of it) has also informed this series.

Monday 6 April 2020

Thursday 2 April 2020

Wednesday 1 April 2020

fathered by someone. We lost ...






































Beanpole  (typed text with mixed media on reverse of print/X-Ray manual) 7 x 9.5 inches