Adrift in the fragmentation of both my personal life and Post-modernism, I was looking for a survival strategy. I needed to consolidate and find terrafirma.

In the Post-Duchampian world of dematerialisation , art seemed to have vanished leaving just a lot of writing about art.  I set out to re-materialise the art object by reintegrating text with matter and to find a point zero from where to begin again. The most primary requirement I could find was the surface

 

Terraforming:

Choosing books, magazines, newspapers from around me, I pulped and then remade them into new surfaces like reclaimed land.  The selection drew on my immediate surroundings but also on older internal strata revealing underlying layers of cultural geology.

​Now I had a primary surface with text, image integrated with material.

 

The blank page however, is always underwritten by the past seeping through into the present and future. I’m constantly working with and against this history, trying to map out the connections to where we are now and to reshape things.

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