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The Valentines - Landslide (2011)  Fan video using elements from The Hunger (1983)

VHS capture , black and white filter

Using repetition to accent key moments , always the same , always different .  4:3 is fast becoming  long forgotten  but I love the claustrophobia it tends to bring .

This be the Verse (2011) Single screen version of 6 screen Installation

"They fuck you up your, mum and dad . They may not mean to but they do .

 They fill you with the faults they had . And add some extra just for you .

 But they were fucked up in their turn . By fools in old-style hats and coats ,

 Who half the time were soppy-stern . And half at one anothers throats .

 Man hands on misery to man . It deepens like a coastal shelf .

 Get out as early as you can . And don't have any kids yourself. "

 Philip Larkin

Myo - Inositol Trispyrophosphate (2011) 

Registry Number : 802590-64-3                         

Formula : C6 H12 O21 P6                                   

Boiling Point 862.3 + 75.0 c Press: 760 Torr         

Carbon -13 NMR See Spectrum

Spectrum                                                              

Density 2.41_+0.1 g/cm3 Temp: 20 c

Press: 760 Torr

Enthalpy of 136.00 + 6.0 Kj/mol Press: 760 Torr

Thankful for your cooperation (2010) 8mm triptych installed inside Rottingdean Windmill

This work explores notions of memory , loss and the fragile and contingent nature of the experiences and thoughts that make us . The central cortex is framed by an idle mill which is a cogent symbol of adversity .

Chip n a chair (2010) hi 8mm film . Joint work with Julia Rowe (Chaz)

The average chipmunk will live 2-3 years and can carry up to 9 nuts at a time .

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.