Picking Wildflowers

Letter home

A4 Paper Collage

catch

A6

Biro on paper

Untitled

A4 collage

with @stevelovettcutbacks

Red or Dead

Digital collage - own photos (David Altmedj at Mason's yard, canna, asemic writing on a bin, Javanese text from British library)

I have been loving using the magic cut and paste tool on the iPhone.

Untitled figure (after Laure Pigeon)

A4

Biro on paper

Hi Steve

A4 paper collage, with clear adhesive film and printed labels

Cyclist Remix

A4

Collage

Covid ka (after Judith Scott)

30cm

Bricolage - wool, wire, fabric, coffee pods, shells sand, plastic, paper, glass

Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage

From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.

woods

A4 collage: acetate, digital collage, digital drawing