As an artist, my practice coalesces around the metaphorical shaping of landmasses, architecture and its influence upon the fauna which swarm about it. These serve as a conduit by which tragedy, despair and malfeasance can be acknowledged and navigated. Through scale works and drawings, I world to better understand my place within a universe which feels evilly chaotic and impossibly cold. The works aren't wholly rotten, and are impossible to pick apart in a rational way, but they do often speak of horrors, though horrors survived.

Recurring motives such as pigs, sludge-caked environments and crumbling industry recall the built environment about me, and the actors which throng trough its decaying boulevards. These evoke atrocity, and represents a personal tension between arousal and revulsion at these elements.

Often sited within my own position in the world at multiple points of time, and the overarching global events which occur at those immovable points, these works are rich in a personal symbolism. Working in scale allows me to manage those influences in a way not too dissimilar to my mental processing of them. Though ultimately autobiographical, I am removed by degrees of separation via surrealism and allegory, metaphor and mundanity. And whilst these are my worlds, the emotions described, and the torments endured are shared markers of experience.

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