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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-covered book. This work was shown at Bath Spa University College 2003.

Wayfarers

‘wayfarers’ a series of 15 large format prints touch on the Japanese idea of sabi-beauty with a sense of loneliness in time, akin to but deeper than nostalgia. The digitally produced prints of the ocean were created using film stills of the sea and overlaid with extracts from the preface of 17th century travel diaries of wandering Zen monk Matsuo Basho. The sea is depicted from the sea looking towards the land mass. This work was shown at Portland Arts Centre 2009.

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-framed digital prints subvert these expectations. The prints use a line of connecting and unpunctuated words creating openness in the text itself. The text continued from one print to another every print is dependent upon other prints although each print stands on its own. This work was shown as part of the 2005 spring programme of exhibitions at the University of Bath in the ICIA Art Space.