The Surfaces & books i chose are almost always discarded & forgotten. I embrace these objects & their surfaces already filled with life’s marks. I feed off that and add my own marks, sending them back out in to the world that once discarded them.
These days i feel an increasing pressure to create work that acts not only as a time warp, but as warnings to an inevitable end. Natural or otherwise.
I've seen a great many changes in the last decade, The Dying of culture and the handmade weighs heavy on my mind. To combat this Books and I have joined up. We are both trying to compete with modern media after all.
In 2001 I took the tactic of rescuing discarded books and reworking them using only their end pages, ( where people look for the summary). There’s no width of pages to scare anyone away an obviously a pictures worth a thousand words. Books are finding less love in the world today, I want to reserve a place for them. Even if it means updating their function.
People are busy these days I want to make my ideas very accessible so I updated a format that’s conveyed information for thousands of years. Now it tells my story..
As things change day to day, I still have love for things that aren’t modern, that are yellowed. I admire there lasting power. I want my work to be like that.
