process

Urban, organic and human environments integrate with and without consciousness. I started taking pictures with my camera as I walked along the streets, of graffiti, stains, street signage and serial numbers on telegraph poles or wall textures or (official) street markings, anything that symbolises something to someone but remains a mystery to most. People walk past these marks and symbols everyday without notice or consideration of their meaning. I wanted to communicate and integrate these in my artwork in a different mode to create different forms. On a deeper psychological level, I prescribed them with my own meaning. Interestingly enough I have a similar relationship with the sky in that I want to give it new meaning in my paintings with these contemporary urban signs – non-conformist (tagging) on top of official directives, instructions and markers for city workers who manage our water and power, our rubbish, our public utilities. The sky is an important element in my current body of works (2006-08) – I combine sky scapes with the gritty animalistic territorial symbols of the tagging (graffiti) artists along with other urban visual marks.

diary extract

Diary extract

This is an example of previous work and also marks the period in my life when I truly began to think about Philosophy. This work is inspired by Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.