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Fake Past36 inchs square This painting makes me think of my own and other pasts where memory is as Proust explains for us, outside of time.
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Walking Away92 x 25 inches and 34 x 25 inches These two paintings were made to be in the office of someone who worked for a drug rehab charity but ... when he changed that job he asked if he could swap them for a set of Jupiter moons. I was happy to get the two text pictures back especially the Russian one which I had hanging in my London apartment for ages.
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Opening46 inches square Reading John Berger's books made me think of stately homes, sundays in my childhood, 'the bag of winds' in Homer's Odyssey and many other things.
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Enclosed67 x 31 inches At art school we were taught the dynamic of rectangles and squares; years later I discovered Открытие the Russian word for Opening.
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Shaker Chair and Standing Stone60 inches square When I stood in the Skara Brae village of Orkney I imagined the nearby ring of Brodgar being made from Shaker Chairs; lucky us to have imagination.
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Favoured Place60 inches square This painting hung in a bedroom of a friend for a few years until we fell out and both thought it was the other persons fault. What they didn't realise was that their apartment had long ago been mine and that the text referred to a memory and not a place to sleep.
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Secret Smell / Secret Place
2 x 48 x 60 inches
My parents did not get along very well and had separate rooms. My mother was unwell and in hospital for a number of years when I was a young child; I would go into her room when the house was empty and try to smell her back to me.
Beautiful Advantage28 inches square This picture was/is one of three; someday if I'm lucky I'll adjust it to say exactly what I mean.
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Global Landscape / Global Language2 x 30 inch squares I remember Jane and I trying to invent an emotional language that had no words or pictures.
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What is an object
3 x 42 x 46 inches
A friend has prints of this work on her wall; the actual paintings are a bit big to fit the available space. A few days after I had hung them in her sitting room she rang me to ask would I move them. I thought perhaps she had gone off them but no, she just wanted them moved; in her sitting room they made her cry (the work reminded her of her husband who had recently died), which was ok to do in her office but not when she was relaxing after a busy day.
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Absent Shadow / Shadow Imagined
2 x 38 x 54 inches
When my friend David Troostwyk died I made this work; his pictures depicted
lost or forgotten objects often though not always with their shadow.
Quark5 x 60 x 72 inches Q. U. A. R. K. s - Top, Bottom, Up, Down, Strange, and Charm; these are the names of six tiny particles of matter, they are never alone but always combine to form other tiny things, hadrons, protons and neutrons for example. As a schoolchild I loved science but dyslexia was my enemy; teachers, baffled by the condition, battled hard to help me find their world but rather led me away from an academic education. In 1978 the physicist Murry Gell-Mann proposed the word Quark in reference to a poem in Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark". James Joyce wrote much on the pain of cuckolding; in 1978 I was in that pain and perhaps always will be, I should perhaps have called the work Blazes Boylan.
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Change / Empty / Nothing / Other5 x 37 x 74 inches Five paintings I made reflecting on concentration camps that were dreamed up by the very end of extremist thought. The colours I've used blue, white and black are the chemical code for the death gas used in some of those camps though optimistically I swapped them round to black, white and blue. The four words depicted slope in a little to fit the fake shower spray that was a lie and the words in the fifth rectangle the words are repeated in a list where the plural is seen to be being obliterated. Pictures seldom mean one thing but try, when they work well, to be ambiguous.
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