Furiously playing guitar

Squiff

Based on Calvino's The Flash these images articulate the offness of a cityscape. When suddenly everything looks a bit off kilter. Faces appear in houses, and buildings topple, kicked in their stomach. Regular brick patterns distort and transform into creatures.  I became interested in a simple method of twisting these scenes - by making a circle and spinning it, so that systematically the images wiggle and jar.

Geodraw

Thinking about geological drawings and diagrams. Escaping the text book diagrams -

and thinking about maintaining a very touchable, textured (I suppose, earthy) surface.  Which shapes, colours and patterns can represent formation without becoming just decorative, at the expense of demonstrating information?  These images i made last year are finding a balance between diagram and picture (?).  Not automatically converting everything into a straight line and regulated pattern gives more sense of scale .. the hand drawn lines/ shapes imply something real and fathomable.

FALLING

Drawings trying to work out a falling figure. As Alice falls down the rabbit hole, as she slides down, as time passes by, her limbs will flail in positions that seem impossible. They are logged as though being tracked by a long exposure camera. Finding the form and catching her fall quickly and intuitively then slowing down on certain parts of her, capturing her still, and in detail for a moment, as if time is slowing down.

Photocopy