‘Beyond that there is only pretence and arrogance’ was, I can see now, related to my immediate surroundings and the things that seem to be celebrated.
The seduction of colour and scale… I suppose my use of plain colours is a direct resistance against this false attraction. Asking for something of its spectator.
Am I looking for something too pure and too honest?
Does that really exist in art schools?
Does it really exist in the wider art world?
I like to hope so, idealistic or otherwise…
The box piece was a spontaneous assemblage of things I was using in the space..I think it works really well in terms of what I was thinking about at the time…. work that naturally occurs as a result of something else (a frequent phenomenon in the studio) Something that found itself somewhere between ambiguous and simple…
