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Travelsketches
This bookwork investigates the travel book and how we form ideas about
far off places without ever visiting them. The work connects things distant in time
with each turn of the page words await a reader once read they spring forth. The
concertina binding enables a more active participation in the unfolding of this experience.
This work was shown at Spike Island Open Studios, Bristol 2003.
11 Stations
11 Stations references the vast ancient pine forests of Japan one of Japans great
attractions. Presented as a single specimen the pine tree could be seen to stand
for greatness and age. Yet central to this work is the notion of ‘impermanence’ phenomena
is inherently impermanent and temporal, existing in a moment of time. The artwork
is a mediation on impermanence it looks at how attachments have a sense of unchanging
reality. The installation of 10 digital prints offers a contrasting sequence to the
cloth-
Wayfarers
‘wayfarers’ a series of 15 large format prints touch on the Japanese idea of sabi-
Dreaming Japan
This artwork explores the format of the book and the element of pages
through the medium of print. The book has beginning and an end, each page can be
seen as punctuation. The 10-