The Top image is one of three A1 drawings which make a tryptch. The Three paintings are an unfinished tryptch. I am also working on three small paintings, three 30″x40″ paintings and have compledted 80 drawigns/mono prints around this same sereis of imagery.

Something obviously grabbed my attention long enough to warrant me to carry on.

Working on the multiples gave me a chance to create a cinematic shift around the squirming figure. It also enables me to cosnider various ways to treat the same scrambling form. Working from different photographs (all the result of a staged performance) I can attempt to pull on the different shuitter speeds, areas of indiscernability vs areas of linear clarity.

The beds seem to become stages in these works, as if this is some theatrical performance. The combination of the private domain of a bedroom and the overt theatricality of the performance creates a certain tense relationship.

The figures are supposed to be melodramatic, pathetically egotistical in their outpouring of emotion. The energy of thie mourning is meant to be eroticised, as if in some desperate call to the presummed other who is absent.

Colour wise I think there is too much going on. I think the constant saturation leads to a muting of the intended intensity. I will push the tonal range of the background further and perhaps unify the form of the figures by adding a semi translucent layer of Titanium white.

I like the idea of having a tonal range with the depth and extremity of baroque artists, that kind of Cathlic intensity and seriousness; but then splashes of acid colour to puncture this. An uncomfortable balance between horrow, seriousness, wit and the erotic is perhaps what i am searching for. On a more general level I think they are about desire, abotu an empty desire which searches for the rise and fall, which searches for the other but in the abscence of it all is left to stage excessive, acrobatic emotional outpourings.