Transience
Duct tape, 12' x 8'
Inspiration for image-making often comes from social interaction. These moments are important and humanity will always be a rich source of material, revealing interest and priorities, hegemony and mores, networking and relationships. Whether directly involved or as an observer, I enjoy the encounters and making references to moments where individuals have come together and are sharing spaces.
‘Transience’, is an image based on a moment of interaction where family and friends came together at an exhibition of art. The shared moment reflects the placement of their value and support. As the figures appear to communicate, sharing a moment, the composition is intended to encourage viewers to feel less of an observer and more as a participant, merging and completing the gathering. Importantly, for me, an aesthetic experience lies somewhere between these integral components: the work, the audience and the encounter. Interestingly, each of these components, and even the memories of them, are at times short lived, impermanent quickly passed over.
Transience
Duct tape, 12' x 8'
Inspiration for image-making often comes from social interaction. These moments are important and humanity will always be a rich source of material, revealing interest and priorities, hegemony and mores, networking and relationships. Whether directly involved or as an observer, I enjoy the encounters and making references to moments where individuals have come together and are sharing spaces.
‘Transience’, is an image based on a moment of interaction where family and friends came together at an exhibition of art. The shared moment reflects the placement of their value and support. As the figures appear to communicate, sharing a moment, the composition is intended to encourage viewers to feel less of an observer and more as a participant, merging and completing the gathering. Importantly, for me, an aesthetic experience lies somewhere between these integral components: the work, the audience and the encounter. Interestingly, each of these components, and even the memories of them, are at times short lived, impermanent quickly passed over.
Transience
Duct tape, 12' x 8'
Inspiration for image-making often comes from social interaction. These moments are important and humanity will always be a rich source of material, revealing interest and priorities, hegemony and mores, networking and relationships. Whether directly involved or as an observer, I enjoy the encounters and making references to moments where individuals have come together and are sharing spaces.
‘Transience’, is an image based on a moment of interaction where family and friends came together at an exhibition of art. The shared moment reflects the placement of their value and support. As the figures appear to communicate, sharing a moment, the composition is intended to encourage viewers to feel less of an observer and more as a participant, merging and completing the gathering. Importantly, for me, an aesthetic experience lies somewhere between these integral components: the work, the audience and the encounter. Interestingly, each of these components, and even the memories of them, are at times short lived, impermanent quickly passed over.
Transience
Duct tape, 12' x 8'
Inspiration for image-making often comes from social interaction. These moments are important and humanity will always be a rich source of material, revealing interest and priorities, hegemony and mores, networking and relationships. Whether directly involved or as an observer, I enjoy the encounters and making references to moments where individuals have come together and are sharing spaces.
‘Transience’, is an image based on a moment of interaction where family and friends came together at an exhibition of art. The shared moment reflects the placement of their value and support. As the figures appear to communicate, sharing a moment, the composition is intended to encourage viewers to feel less of an observer and more as a participant, merging and completing the gathering. Importantly, for me, an aesthetic experience lies somewhere between these integral components: the work, the audience and the encounter. Interestingly, each of these components, and even the memories of them, are at times short lived, impermanent quickly passed over.
Singing Gates
acrylic and charcoal, 48" x 36"
Gates have long featured in the art of Bermuda. Situated along picturesque roads and offering glimpses into beautiful private gardens and vistas, gates also represent denial and control. Gates have also become associated with scandal and politics. I use this familiar icon in this series of four paintings to represent local sites of resistance.
Cow Pass
acrylic, 24" x 36"
Here are three of the paintings from this series in which I have focused on distinctive and peculiar elements appearing in my neighborhood.
Cow Pass is the original name for Khyber Pass, Bermuda.
Cow Pass
acrylic, 24" x 36"
Here are three of the paintings from this series in which I have focused on distinctive and peculiar elements appearing in my neighborhood.
Cow Pass is the original name for Khyber Pass, Bermuda.
Singing Gates
acrylic and charcoal, 48" x 36"each
Gates have long featured in the art of Bermuda. Although they are often depicted along picturesque roads and offering glimpses into beautiful private gardens and vistas, gates also represent denial and control. Gates have also become associated with scandal and politics. I use this familiar icon in this series of four paintings to represent local sites of resistance.
‘Peppergate’
The South gate at the House of Parliament was the site, on December 2, 2016, where protestors, claiming a lack of transparency by Government about the airport redevelopment project, were pepper-sprayed by Police officers.
‘Furlough’
The east gate of the Cabinet grounds was one of those used by thousands of protesting government employees in January 2015 in regards to the proposed extension of their voluntarily offered Furlough contribution.
‘Queen of the East’
'The Queen of the East' on East Broadway, is a site that received much protest over its planned and eventual demolition in January 2016. The building epitomized Bermudian 18th century architecture and, at the time, was the least altered of all of the original buildings on the Foot of the Lane waterfront.
‘Southlands’
The entrance to Southlands was the scene of protests throughout March 2007 over the proposed development of a new hotel on the last large undeveloped location in Warwick. The successful protest led to the eventual swap of land with Morgan’s Point.