The estranged Twain Family
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Detail of door frame.
We’re surrounded by buildings so much so we hardly notice them, particularly the finer detail.
The title is a reference to having OCD traits and a wish for symmetry and perfection and the struggle to tolerate when things don’t necessarily sit in harmony with each other.
I love the fact that one can so often find an image, in the most unlikely places.
This image has been created from a leak underneath a urinal bowl and the constant drip dripping and the purity of the water or lack of it, has produced this beautiful colour and pattern.
An imaginary collaboration between the Artists.
I was thinking that the simple/soft act of putting a piece of masking tape on the wall must have taken someone all of about five seconds.
But then the ensuing act of the tape losing its adhesive quality and the process of coming unstuck and departing altogether is potentially slow and complex and heavily influenced by a variety of elemental forces.
Making it a piece of performance art in itself.
Weather worn canvas.
The ability of an image to transport the viewers experience to a previous time, place and person.
I'm a modern enigma
I am living proof
Cold eyes speaking volumes
Of my troubled youth
I believe in the future
From mistakes I have grown
Leaving the shadows
Which were once my home
Words from the song, Shelter by the Brand New Heavies
Enigma: a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.
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I often title images with whatever first comes to mind and in this instance the album cover of King Crimsons, In The Wake Of Poseidon. One of my all time favourite bands.
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
The title is a reference to being 'open to all possibilities and experiences' as well as referencing the netting within the image
sitting in my tin can
far from the world
planet earth is purple
and there’s nothing I can do
Words, with a slight modification, from the song, Space Oddity by David Bowie
Rusty Car Roof that to me looks like the earth as seen from space. We see the outline of land mass and the twinkling lights of the cities and harbour
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I could of easily called this image, train of thought, because that’s exactly what happened and how I ended up with the title.
My initial thought was of a bunch of flowers, which led to Bouquet and then romance as flowers are often given as a term of love and how often you see (unimaginative);) men on Valentines Day carrying a single Rose or bunch of, and finally the album of the same title ‘The Flowers of Romance by PIL (Public Image Limited)
Is the title of a song by The Jam but is also a reference to travelling on the Tube or Metro.
What I like about Metro stations or at least the ones I’ve travelled on in Eastern Europe, Budapest, in this instance. Is that, unlike London Underground where every available space is covered in Ads and make me feel claustrophobic, invade my headspace, I know that’s the intention, but I don’t like it!
European Metros allow the opportunity to breathe and enjoy the space, design and architecture. Which in turn is a more meditative experience.
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The Blood Red Game is a book by the Science Fiction writer, Michael Moorcock. I remember reading it back in the early 70's when it came out. Can't recall the story but have a vague recollection of the book cover, a man walking down a path against the backdrop of a 'Blood' red sky full of eyes.
The power of the unconscious to connect a memory from the past, to something I'm looking at in the present.
Could be a reference to camera position/angle but equally could be in relation to a discussion, were there are two opposing views on the same subject and both are true.
I was thinking what would early artist sketches look like? We’ve seen cave drawings and they are very simplistic, so presumably an early portrait would be similar, without much detail?
Equally this also reminds me of a Francis Bacon image in the making.
The beauty of abstract images is they can be whatever your mind wants and allows. Indeed it encourages the minds expression.
I like word associations and green can be connected to many words.
The Green Lantern comes to mind for me and of course he’s so fast, it’s hard to get a complete picture, often only a glimpse.