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Watercolour Sketches
May 12, 2013
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Some more ball-point drawings of my degree show sculpture.
April 10, 2012
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Hunt for Projections of Nature.
March 22, 2012

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This piece was a meditation on something that had been bothering me for a long time. It is about the way nature is perceived by some as an intellectual construct that came out of a ideal. When the world, of Europe perhaps, began to take trips out into the hills to connect with nature. It became a lost idyll of peace and the way things aught to be. This sanitized myth of nature with its order and noble savagery seems to me a dangerous and misguided thing. I’m not sure how to reconcile this with my own experience of the wild – with scorpions in shoes and black mambas under the dining room table – there is more to nature that our projections of it. It is also not just that thing which we in our grand power must protect. It is also that which allows for our very being. It is a precondition for our cities and comforts. it is not just the trees we see go by but the wheels, the road and the fire in the engines.

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Correction Machine
March 22, 2012

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Still working with feathers and print media, this machine developed as a one to score out text.

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Motivations of Desire
March 22, 2012

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The My second kinetic sculpture. This one is slightly off the track that links the technological concerns of the other works. It is more delicate and has in itself its own means of motion. The flames from the candle turn the blades made from newspaper lonely hearts columns.

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Principled Inflation
March 22, 2012

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The first kinetic sculpture I made. It was an attempt to create an authentic animation – not to hide behind the magic of film and the gaps between frames. I made it in response to the rejection of condom use by the church. The basis of which seems to be an attempt at moral blackmail that results in death, disease and unwanted pregnancy. What does the church want to achieve in this? Though it is not the only reason I do believe that there is a rejection of technology in this. The condom, that thin but strong layer of latex is a technology that stands against the Will of God in conception.

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Snapshots of animate passivity
March 22, 2012

These drawings are elements of an sculptural piece I am currently working on for the DJCAD degree show opening on the…

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