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 The Anger that Ensues From Always Being In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time.
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.
Bergen, Norway. 30th May 2002
This painting is the first in a series of experiments resulting in five different pieces experimenting with scale and movement. Inspired by the immensity of my surroundings at the time, the fjords of Norway, I wanted to convey the grandness of what I was experiencing but was limited by the facilities at my disposal (you can't just nip out to the art supply store when you're working on a cruise ship!) From this conflict of inspiration versus necessity came this set of five small paintings. They were all painted late at night during one of my many bouts with insomnia.
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 The Anger that Ensues (inverted).
Digital media
16th January 2008
This is a simple negative scan of "The Anger That Ensues..." I feel that the blue shades do not convey the sense of movement and excess which I feel the reds do so well. However I have had more viewers interested in this virual piece than the original painting.
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 The Loneliness of Running Down A Hill, Only To Return To No One Waiting.
Acrylic paint and mixed media on Watercolor Paper.
Andalsnes, Norway, 27th May 2002
Norway is a spiritual place for me. A place of awe and depth beyond human understanding. When I am there I feel, perhaps, at peace. When I walk in the fjord's of Geranger, Stavanger or Alesund I am subjected to an irresistable compulsion to set off running by throwing myself down the steep wooded sides of the glaciated valleys with complete abandon. All of this is quite strange, as I do not consider myself to be a spiritual person and I don't run.
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 Loneliness (Inverted)
Digital media
16th January 2008
Again, this is simply a scanned image of the original painting with a negative inversion filter applied. This digital image gives a much more acurate impression (the irony of that has not escaped me!) of the tree branches and folliage flying passed as I careen downwards to the water's edge.
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 The Perturbation Of Crying For One's Self, When One Knows There Will Never Be Anyone To Hear.
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.
Helsinki, Finland, 05 June 2002
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 Perturbation (Inverted)
Digital media
16th January 2008
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 The Confusion of Wanting; Never Having (For Long).
Acrylic paint and mixed media on Watercolor Paper.
St. Petersburg, Russia. 08 June 2002
This is the fourth painting in the series of five. I have received a number of positive comments about the "vortex" or "blackhole" effect of this piece, but no comments about the vaginal imagery. This is  perhaps because of the landscape orientation, when the painting is viewed in portrait orientation, I feel, the vaginal imagery becomes more obvious. This image was the direct inspiration for Cunt-IV, though phallic and vaginal imegary have been prevalent in my visual art since 1995.
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 The Confusion of Wanting (Inverted)
Digital media
16th January 2008
The process of inverting the image into negative turns the heavy, thick dark blue shades into off-pink and off-yellows which contrast in splendid "wrongness" with the aqua blue swirls.
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 Dark Riders Were Approaching
Acrylic paint and mixed media on Watercolor Paper.
2002
A phallic counter-point to the vaginal imegery in "Confusion..."
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 Dark Riders (Inverted)
Digital media
16th January 2008
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 Lips
Mixed Media on paper
2003
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 Cock-I
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.
2002
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 Cunt-IV
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.
2002
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 The Dull Thud of Melancholia.
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.
Tallin, Estonia. 09 June 2002
Though I did not fully refer to myself as an Existentialist until after 2007, depression, melancholy, angst and sadness are recurring themes in much of my work in many different mediums. What does this tell us about the artist? Do we need to understand the artist in order to understand the work of art? Does the personal life of the artist only exist to contextualize the work after the act of creation is complete, or is all work inseperable from the psycho-social ramifications of the artist's life? Work that is created through the artist, not just by the artist.
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 The Kiss
Pastel and pencil on Watercolor Paper.
2002
After Man Ray's photograph Le Baiser (The Kiss) (1930).
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 The Rape of Lucretia
Acrylic paint on watercolor paper in reconditioned vintage frame.
July 2009
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 The Rape of Lucretia II
Acrylic on watercolor paper w/ digital manipulation.
Completed September 2008
"If he asks to touch your breasts
Make sure his hands are clean.
If he snatches at your cunt
Tell him you are dry and ridden with scabs." (Anon.)
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 Of Casandra
Acrylic paint and mixed media on art board in vintage frame.
September 2009
Continuing my exploration of the Casandra legend started in my play "Either Thinking; Nor Feeling" (2007)
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 Of Danae
Acrylic paint on art board in reconditioned vintage frame.
September 2009
"Danae was a princess of Argos in the Greek Peloponessos, a daughter of King Akrisios. When her father learned a prophecy that he was destined to be killed by a son of his daughter, he locked Danae away in a subterranean, bronze chamber. Her prison, however, was easily infiltrated by the god Zeus who impregnated her in the guise of a golden shower. She conceived and bore him a son named Perseus. As soon as her father learned of this, he placed Danae and the infant in a chest and set them afloat at sea. By the providence of the gods they drifted safely to the island of Seriphos, where the fisherman Diktys brought them ashore and offered welcomed them into his house." (Theoi Greek Mythology website)
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 Traffic
Acrylic paint on art board in reconditioned vintage frame.
September 2009
Difficult to photograph these framed pieces because of the reflection of the flash.
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 Y Ddraig Goch
Acrylic paint on masonite
July 2007
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 In flagella paratus sum
Acrylic and metallic paint on canvas board.
August 2009
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 Of Dante
Acrylic paint on art board
October 2009
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 Jesus Fish
Acrylic paint on card w/ original digital photograph overlay.
November 2009
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