The main focus of my work
has been self and memory. Because I feel the need to explore my own
understanding towards memory and existence! I “experiment” with
the way I produce the images. I use photography and digital imaging
to produce images (both of which still play a large part in my production
process 1).
When it comes down to it I’m really most interested in the way
representation interprets my experience! So I began with childhood…
My intentions with my degree show work was to create stimulating
images which had the feel of the environmental circumstances, whilst
growing up in New York
City during the nineteen-seventies
2.
It was not, however, an attempt to tell any particular story about
New York, but rather how I saw the world about me at a young age
(i.e. it could have been anywhere in the world). I also intended
then to shew something of how I felt, and to some extent still feel,
about myself, but in such a way so as to interest, and stimulate
the imagination of, the viewer. Hopefully this effect will have been
achieved by talking not of myself in particular, but also about where
I come from, and the complexity of not being able to realize this
(of how one can never really be “known”). In this instance
it is the New York City of
the nineteen-seventies, and in particular Greenwich Village and the East
Village (or
Lower East Side as it’s also referred to). The former being
where I lived and the latter being where I spent much of my time,
as this was where allot of my parents’ friends
lived 3.
I layered together images 4 of myself,
as a small boy, and of various parts of the city, creating a view of
how the New York of
my memory is. The titles in this series are all derived from the file
names of the “sketches” for these
paintings, which were done in Photoshop on the Mac.
I have continued to work in the same media
I have been using. As for subject matter… 5 Well
that could also be said to be a constant of sorts, because my prime
fascination/obsession is “reality”, and/or
it’s perception and/or memory. So that theme flows through my
concepts for work. What I’m working on at present is a series
of images of myself “morphed” together with images of my cats,
which have resonances of my feelings of alienation and estrangement
from ‘human’ society.
View my artwork via a set of thumbnails.
