Of all the powerful words, one stands above the rest as the most toxic and destructive to our mental health. Should. I like the image of Atlas shouldering the weight of the Heavens as a starting point to represent the power that should has.
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Language is uniquely human and has driven our success as a species, but it comes with a major drawback – the power of words to harm our mental health. With this project, I’m making words the subjects of images to explore the power they have over us.
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I’ve been continuing my exploration of out-of-focus photography with architecture and not only created some images I really like but learnt some useful lessons for taking this project forward.
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I started experimenting with the idea of photographing out of focus to create photographs that are just compositions of blended shapes and colours – a purely visual experience.
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Life is a very visual experience for me, and art is more about the visual than conceptual. With this project, I’m aiming to bring together art and neuroscience to explore the visual experience of art.
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The resolve to go ahead with my Cambridge Colleges project finally crystallised – several years after I did the initial drawing – during the COVID pandemic, so lockdowns have prevented me from visiting any colleges. However, among my photography portfolio, I have the above image of King’s Colllege, so I decided to make this the second drawing of the series.
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This drawing reminded me of how it felt to draw and create art and showed me that, despite several years without drawing anything, I could still do it. What I didn’t know at the time was that this drawing would be the beginning of a project.
read moreEvery true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
Piet Mondrian
What is art? It’s a big question, but one that any artist needs an answer to. Of course, there’s no definitive answer – it’s all so subjective. Art can be all sorts of things for different people, in different contexts and at different times. But if you want to make art, then the only way you can start and the only way you can know whether you are succeeding is by knowing within yourself what art is for you.
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for art's sake 