I have been a stalwart for anti-materialism but it doesn’t mean I have a problem with materialism or I am against it. I just don’t need the headaches. Of course what I feel is normal for me would drive some people over the edge. In today’s world of algorithms and image saturation reading a book feels like a well earned break but I am not immune to sampling images and making what I want to think of as bad copies.

They are bad copies in the way I execute some of the structure and the way my rendition is hard to trace back. It isn’t always the case but mostly I find images that have potential to become other images. I feel like my copies are actually more interesting than the original image if I get it right/wrong. I have been doing this for decades and in earlier iterations I cannibalised my own archive of photographs and video stills making new coded work.

Sometimes I sampled physical marketing images and just made it into something else like a work I did on a train in 1998 where it was both sampling my own photographs (structure/line) and a sports shoe catalogue with some improvised memory drawings from analog television shows (the twilight zone) with none of these references being traceable due to their poor representation and sprayed presentation. The aerosol broke the illusion but also became the illusion.