Part utopic idea, full blown propaganda project, mostly collapsing residence, all historical monument.
Built by the GDR in the 1950's to house the new workers of the socialist state. It ironically became the scene of their revolt, and had to be saved by capital investment post reunification. The workers of the new state were to have the best, fully plumbed, heated, modern accommodation unlike any the proletariat had seen before. This was to be what you could expect if everyone worked together to provide for each other. If those who could did, society could figure out a way to provide for each other.
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This is a landscape like so many others, both ancient and in a state of constant, modernising flux. Speaking to a friend about this place, they know it well from researching it from an information gathering project, it becomes clear that it has been well studied for a long time (by our measure at least). A time, short in comparison to its age of human occupation, but longer than the unit of a lifetime so often worked in.
An ongoing series of semi automatic drawings dedicated to the theme of plants. Begun with as mindless pen stroke as possible, considered, and completed based on the initial mark. At times surreal, often improbable, yet rarely less unbelievable than many such things that grew, or continue to grow in the world. More/larger images are available on Saatchi Art here.
The Isläanders series depicts a number of abstracted forms taken from real world environments. The images are made using photographs, each piece uses a variety of layered elements from a single initial image. The process highlights often unintended aspects, prominences are then distinguished further using hand inked outlines.
Both ephemeral and material, the Your Ruins series toes a line between the mythical and the real. Abstracted landscapes and symbols lie somewhere between creative freedom and considered forms. Made from discarded detritus, The Anatomist finds creation in the destruction, loss or abandonment of the materials found and used. Haunting maybe bleak and oblique, each possesses a unique character, the curved darkened silhouettes applied with recklessness in Is This Familiar vs the cut and golden formed preciseness of Icon. All are textural, layered and contoured. Whether through the use of many thin layers of paint, fillers and textured painter, or through the assemblage of rough objects. More images are available on Saatchi Art here.
Suspended in darkened recycled wooden boxes the Beyond series of drawings, float above their environments. Stretched and abstracted forms based, on invented landscapes or imagined worlds of possibility, removed from reality. The infinite choices and potentials of life, underline the somewhat incidental approach to production.
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