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May 02, 2008
Synchronicity
As I've mentioned before, every time I leave the studio to make a cup of coffee I see this unfinished piece propped against the wall. And, like Quasimodo on the First Sunday after Easter, today it struck a bell.
Nothing’s that far from anything else. Indeed, by all accounts, we’re all only ever six people away from Kevin Bacon and, apparently, if you lose your pen it’ll be a maximum of nine inches away from where you are.
Or at least where you were when you lost it, providing, I guess, it didn’t slip out of your back pocket during your record breaking attempt of the North Face of the Eiger. Mind you it might still be nine inches away, in one direction – and several thousand feet in quite another direction. But, as usual, I digress.
Theodoric was One of Us, manipulated digital image
The photographs I’m working on at the moment are not entirely dissimilar to a series of mixed media pieces I did a few years ago:
head and text VIII, 200mm x 350mm mixed media on paper
head + blots, 225mm x 300mm, mixed media on paper
And indeed figures and text have been known to feature in the big oils:
figure with vessel, 1980mm x 1220mm, oil on panel
ummm… the same themes can be seen in the films too:
still image from dusttodust, digital video, 5'16"
still image from dusttodust, digital video, 5'16"
I seem to have spent the last umpty years trying to get words and bodies to lie together.
Posted by john at May 2, 2008 12:36 PM