17 Apr How I got to where I am now – part 1
People often ask me how I got into making the work I do now, what first got me started.
It always a difficult question to answer as it wasn’t really a conscious decision. It was the result of many things that somehow came together to try to solve a problem, though it solved a different problem to the one I thought I had.
The problem I thought I was solving was looking for a different way to use maps in the collage work I was doing then, I wasn’t expecting to start a whole new way or working!
One of the pieces I worked on which lead me to make my first cuts into maps was
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Aloha, 2002 |
This piece is made from maps, gouache, pencil collage mounted on wood, it’s about 3 metres wide. It even had a sound track that went with it that was a found recording of the beginning of a Haiwian music concert.
Another piece that I made that involved maps was this one
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Flock, 2001 |
This piece was made from a star atlas from 1938, gouache, collage. It was again quite big, about 3m high and a had a recording of bird song that went with it. I always somehow felt the individual pieces worked better than the whole.
No prizes for spotting the theme going on here…
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Bingo Parrot, 2002 |