This photo blog shows me making a 6ft square painting titled Semiotics in Praxis V – spraying (2014). It’s an enlarged representation of the HSE symbol warning people to wear respiratory protection. The running drips are encouraged and the canvases are covered in wrinkled newsprint to provide texture. It references my previous work in the oil and gas industry and my illness which has been connected to exposure to chemicals.
I now use photographs of this painting as a self portrait, and as my avatar on social media websites.
