Humbug
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| Humbug 2021 oil on board |
Reclaiming two offcuts of board I had put aside a few years ago, I notice there is something in these matching shapes that works, I recognise something there, like trying to recall a forgotten word. Changing them around I see a way to continue.
A simpleness in the symmetry emphasises their repeated form, these household materials appear almost naturalistic, creating a visual similarity to growth patterns in a shell, a chrysalis or maybe the traditional tetrahedral shape of a humbug.
I realise that this similarity is in the word humbug too. as a type of synesthesia, visually together but altered.
I also see how this comparison between natural process and waste products now relates to an earlier group of works.
In 2009, I made a series of small drawings around the idea of 'Ocean Crisis' after a return visit to Marloes cove in Wales. Concerned by the quantity of plastic debris I saw there, I took a twenty minute walk along the shore line collecting the plastic waste and later including it in a series.
Ocean Crisis 2009 and more recently in Sea Change.
I first saw Marloes cove in 1979 and had been absolutely amazed by its pure clean beauty, it was shocking to see the changes when returning in 2009.
I came across this Ladybird book at around the same time
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| Ladybird book 'The Story of Plastics' 1972 |
'The Story of Plastics' looked at the beginning of how plastics were changing the world.
Now we are trying to find ways to remove ithem from our oceans
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| Sea Change 2015 - acrylic, ink, plastic bag, 29.5 x 20cm |
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