My work explores the cultural phenomenon of amateur theories. Emerging from the depths of the Internet, these obscure fragments of questionable knowledge are free to unravel and escalate, and lead only to dangerous revelation or hysteria. I, one of the last generation to remember the birth of the internet, foresee a paranoid rational digital future, reared on conspiracies.
I am sentimental for the old world, when the world was still mystical. When alchemic outsiders and cunning men looked upon an uncharted landscape. When forming my drawings and etchings I am informed by visceral guidance. An unknown and alien landscape recurs in my mind and on the page like in one of Dante’s layered dream spheres. I find inspiration by exploring the dreamtime, when my consciousness crosses realms. I use drawings and poetry to document this inner world; a zone swirling with surreal images, prophetic messages, premeditated paths and crossed roads. Lines emerge intuitively; shaping into suspicious forms. Triffids, UFOs, religious apparitions on Damascus roads, David Icke and ritual stones grow out of lines that innately flow. Trolling dubious pockets of the Internet has infected my imagination. Researching alternative belief systems that dance on the fringes of culturally determined sanity and rationality fuels my interest in creating abstruse links, forming semi-fictional narratives. Another theory is spun.
Like a demented detective I merge snippets of mythical ideologies, fragments of spiritual wisdom, to create confusingly surreal narratives, in the form of oil painted and collaged stop motion animations. Lead down a mystical path, this subject lends itself to the alchemic processes of analogue photography and traditional print-making. I create images that slip between and materialise within both digital systems and traditional printing processes. The hybrid image, drifting and orphaned is my response to our bitter-sweet reliance on technology. I find one artwork of one medium bleeds into another, stirring up a whirlpool of inspiration; an internal Ouroboros.
I am inspired by the prophetic genius of such eccentrics as William Blake, Stanley Kubrick and Terrence McKenna. I hope for a return to the romantic to sabotage rationalism. I believe that instinctual or divine intervention breaks through and moves within the over saturated and nullified age of information.
I am a truth seeker. Obsessively I try to piece together evidence, which will at last lead me to the elusive moment of epiphany. The sacred moment when monoliths appear on the horizon at dawn; when the pinnacle of enlightenment is reached and restless searching ceases. The realisation that this moment will forever be out of reach, has lead me to discover that the subject of my work is that futile quest.
I am sentimental for the old world, when the world was still mystical. When alchemic outsiders and cunning men looked upon an uncharted landscape. When forming my drawings and etchings I am informed by visceral guidance. An unknown and alien landscape recurs in my mind and on the page like in one of Dante’s layered dream spheres. I find inspiration by exploring the dreamtime, when my consciousness crosses realms. I use drawings and poetry to document this inner world; a zone swirling with surreal images, prophetic messages, premeditated paths and crossed roads. Lines emerge intuitively; shaping into suspicious forms. Triffids, UFOs, religious apparitions on Damascus roads, David Icke and ritual stones grow out of lines that innately flow. Trolling dubious pockets of the Internet has infected my imagination. Researching alternative belief systems that dance on the fringes of culturally determined sanity and rationality fuels my interest in creating abstruse links, forming semi-fictional narratives. Another theory is spun.
Like a demented detective I merge snippets of mythical ideologies, fragments of spiritual wisdom, to create confusingly surreal narratives, in the form of oil painted and collaged stop motion animations. Lead down a mystical path, this subject lends itself to the alchemic processes of analogue photography and traditional print-making. I create images that slip between and materialise within both digital systems and traditional printing processes. The hybrid image, drifting and orphaned is my response to our bitter-sweet reliance on technology. I find one artwork of one medium bleeds into another, stirring up a whirlpool of inspiration; an internal Ouroboros.
I am inspired by the prophetic genius of such eccentrics as William Blake, Stanley Kubrick and Terrence McKenna. I hope for a return to the romantic to sabotage rationalism. I believe that instinctual or divine intervention breaks through and moves within the over saturated and nullified age of information.
I am a truth seeker. Obsessively I try to piece together evidence, which will at last lead me to the elusive moment of epiphany. The sacred moment when monoliths appear on the horizon at dawn; when the pinnacle of enlightenment is reached and restless searching ceases. The realisation that this moment will forever be out of reach, has lead me to discover that the subject of my work is that futile quest.