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.
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
I feel as though I could be looking down on the Earth from the International Space Station. The outline of land mass can be seen, as well as the twinkling lights from cities, towns and boats in the harbour.
It is in fact the rusty roof of a car.
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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)
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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.
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.
Currently featured in, 'Contrast' Magazine and 'Contrast' online exhibition at, METASPACEGALLERY.com, Sept '24
This image reminds me of a pint of Guinness and the title is taken from the Guinness commercial 'Surfer'
This image brought to mind the Bobby Vee song of the same title. The song about a women who might be cheating on her partner,
'“So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes”
It’s the repetition of the numerous black against the white that links to the idea of, ‘eyes” that are watching our every move.