Shire (2003) 8mm triptych , video is of a 2010 installation .

Concerned with the sublimatory nature of art and human achievement this work also (perhaps) expresses a yearning for the simpler times and processes that have been lost in our quest for technological advancement . The work also addresses the notion of memory as being intrinsically anachronistic and how such memories enable us to move effortlessly through time . The configuration of defunct display units (technologically advanced given the context) might help lock the installed work into some kind of paradoxical futuristic anachronism .

The Horse and plough ( literally scraping at the earth )  denote a place of juncture ( above and below the ground) , a place between realms , be they physical , psychological , spiritual , earthly etc. The twin images may well be representative of chaotic nature (dionysian) whilst the plough might be represent our effort to exercise control over her  (appollonian) . Intrinsic to this idea is the notion of the chthonian, that which lurks under the crust . " Nature shrugs and all is in ruin" which is the essence of the work ... Life is a fragile and delicately balanced quest to maintain a semblance of control over forces which are ultimately far too powerful.