2020. Acacia wood and acrylic paint. 170 x 30 x 30 cm.
The inscriptions of time on the body. A tally stick of experiences. I felt the bare wood of this 2011 piece would benefit from the experiments and discoveries made while painting the Last Laugh heads.
An opportunity for one of my favourite Cocteau quotes – “You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
Animal Spirits
2017. Wood, money, buttons, cotton. 41 x 15 x 6 cm.
I inherited this from my economist father, a souvenir from his consulting work in Africa. I re-carved it to have the eyes from one of Rembrandt’s later self portraits, sadder and wiser after its engagement with global capital.
Relic Redux
Animal Spirits
Relic