Happy New Year

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. 

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. 

-Alan Cohen 

Here's wishing you all a wonderful New Year.

New Works

The studies below was created while I was an artist in residence at Vermont, during Occupy Wall Street  a protest movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics in September 2011. It gave rise to the wider occupy movement States and other countries. 

My work was in response to it, examining our interconnectedness and how these events affected the economies of countries all over the globe. The layering of cut outs from magazines and newspapers, imbuing the work with new meaning. The use of typography, texts lifted from magazines, and newspapers with their self reflective prose exploring this interconnectedness.

En route From Mombasa

Kenyan Landscapes 

Homeward Bound

Home calls; the Vermont Studio Centre Residency has concluded

Somewhere in Instabul 

Sights And Sounds of NY

The residency at Vermont Studio Center concluded with a cultural week visit to New York, the images below are scenes and sights of my experience, the streets, the museums

Had a great burger and fries here 

Times Square 

A Walk Through Central Park

The value of water an exhibition opened September 22,2011- March 25,2011 

at The Cathedral of Saint John the Amsterdam avenue New York, New York 10025 

Somewhere In Union Square

A Visit To Newyork Museums

View of Maurizio Cattelan: At the Guggenheim 

Detail 

The exhibition brings together virtually everything the artist has produced since 1989 and presents the works en masse, strung seemingly haphazardly from the oculus of the Guggenheim’s rotunda. Perversely encapsulating Cattelan’s career to date in an overly literal, three-dimensional catalogue raisonné, the installation lampoons the idea of comprehensiveness. The exhibition is an exercise in disrespect: the artist has hung up his work like laundry to dry. 

Going Out With A Bang

Studio Cleaning day! 

Sarah 

Lori, Sarah, Beatrice and Tari 

Coming undone 

Work In Progress

 "Detail"

The Museum of Everyday Life

What I love about travelling the most is discovering little nooks of culture. While sometimes didactic, some museums have a little eccentricity to them. The museum of everyday life is small, but contains things of a bygone era. Some things would probably provoke nostalgia and others well….they probably would do nothing for anyone. It’s all a matter of taste. The pieces in the museum I found most fascinating are the matches. There was the U.S Army Base collection, the California nightclubs collection and the Anchorage Alaska collection. Three collections from the vast holdings of the McCaw-Cook archives, vintage and examples of fine printing and classic advertising imagery of a bygone era. I don’t really know how long they date back……