from my recent time in hospital










and some oldies

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if my art practice is to be self sustaining, it has to be relevant to my life. not approached as a separate hobby or 'thing' i do. with this in mind, i have to disregard pre-conceived ideas about aesthetics or final outcomes. the end result does not hold a great deal of importance. focus is to be placed on the processes involved in creating/doing. returning, to the notion that my art and life should be intrinsically linked. when this happens, my art will not fault with the full stop of an idea; more likely, it will progress with my daily happenings. the artwork itself is not based on aesthetic values, but more on the act of creating and producing. the work i predict i will make will vary with each idea/project. it can be text related, photographic, video, internet screen prints, documentation of an event, drawing/sketches, etc. the link that bonds this work together will be its association with my life and routines. this new approach to my art making has in mind pluralism, whereby artist's work may never look the same, as the media/outcome is determined by the individual projects set. alexei shulgin and zach shipko are two artists i have been interested lately. their aesthetic varies with every artwork produced. an artwork can simply be a hyperlink to a website the artist likes. it can also be an online video, email, or photoshopped image. it broadens what is defined as 'art' in contemporary internet culture. i am interested in audience involvement/interaction with my work, and by placing it online (such as this blog), it allows a different viewing space than a gallery. i can see that the direction of this blog is going to change from a display page of 'final artworks,' to a working space and testing ground for new ideas.



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the accumulation of footage from a night out.

the brief for this work was ' (architectural) plane.' in it, a plane hovers in air, above 3 shaved down darts (representant of bullets). one tv screen has video flying through clouds, the other has clouds receding into the distance. this creates a virtual flight path for the toy.

the videos

this work was filmed on 4 cameras simultaneously. the focus is on a grid, with diagonal intersecting lines. at points, all 4 videos are active with movement, yet more often, only 2 hold focus. when installed, the tv's are aligned with the cameras they were filmed on.

the installation view