Oil on canvas. Monochrome painting that is the colour you see when you close your eyes in bright light.
Descriptions of artworks to create in your imagination. Some could become real. Some never should. Some are ultimately mindfulness exercises. However you see them, the experience for each viewer is unique. Resource List. Manifesto.
Monday, 17 July 2023
Monday, 10 July 2023
#181: Closed eyes (Art anywhere, anytime)
The impressions made, in red on black or black on red, by the light on your eyelids when you close your eyes.
Monday, 3 July 2023
#180: Panic Piece
Recreate the feeling until you can’t breathe.
Then relax because you faked it.
And smile because that will do.
Monday, 26 June 2023
#179: Nude
A full-length mirror in a gallery.
Monday, 19 June 2023
#178: Work Together (A Socialist Tapestry)
Flags hang from the gallery ceiling representing all activisms that fall, or should fall, on the political left. All strands and points of view are represented. The bottom end of each flag is frayed so that they carry on and dangle down. These frayed ends are then knotted to the frayed ends of every other flag, connecting all to each other.
sailing under all flags
we should all be socialists
and raise each other up
we should all be everythingists
advocates for each other
for we face obstacles in common
and can only beat them together
competition narrows and demeans
us, makes us more like them
undermining and exploding
holding on and pulling down
to live as fearlessly as a child
we must first dismantle
the entire prison together
sailing under all flags
we should all be everything
for to raise each other up
Monday, 12 June 2023
#177: The End of the Golden Period (and The Start of the Dialogue with The Past)
Oil on canvas.
Word painting reading,
< googles, “The Idea” >
Damn it, I thought I was being original.
Monday, 5 June 2023
#176: A place to stop and discuss the other works (but not this one)
Somewhere within your exhibition, preferably breaking up an otherwise solid wall of paintings, please leave a blank space from the floor to the ceiling of 2 metres titled in the catalogue as:
A place to stop and discuss the other works (but not this one).
Unentered idea for the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the theme of which was “Only Connect,” taken from the famous quote in Howards End by E.M. Forster.