This first image is part landscape and part voidscape - it has a focal point which is almost like some sort of lighthouse - the yellow point in the centre. This focal point has a white rectangular frame which gives the false impression of being in the distance... very much a false impression due to the fact that pictures are often entirely 2 Dimensional in form but create 3 Dimensional spaces through tricks with perspective. The above is a very primitive trick. The landscape/voidscape surrounding the point of light is a living, writhing thing. It's not something that would be safe to walk over - but at least it would be scenic.
I used to very much like the X Files as a teenager and love a good alien abduction story. There aren't really enough films or tv shows that have alien abduction in anymore. It must have been a 90s thing. The above image may not be all about alien abduction but more about the pure terrible pressure of something higher and unknowable which reaches into the minds of people - the three faces in the image stand blank and expressionless and together - all linked by some horrible unknowable force that gets stuck in their heads and makes them all live towards the same values and conceits. I don't have any dislike for people as individuals but there is some over riding power that hangs in the rafters of the collective consciousness and makes people gang up on anyone who's a bit different. It's certainly not very nice.
This is a large ghostly everescent orb drifting through the ether - it's a big green orb - this big green orb could be living or perhaps it's just a shape. The big green orb would be real somewhere, it's motives unknowable and vague even to itself.
This started out as a photograph of part of
my installation at the Bankley Gallery last year... I built around it making it more of a two dimensional picture but the both are in contrast to one another... I quite like the contrast. How the photo pulls you towards it and boxes itself in and the rest of the image is both a frame/border but also in interaction... I could have made it blend in better but I wanted to retain that contrast and create some separation.
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