Exit 2 hypha-gallery-east-village burnished and waxed to produce

burnished and waxed to produce depth of colour and lustre helping to unify the colouration

I view this work as an effort to ground myself by referencing empowering body language and colour and drawing on my heritage

They both have an edge between closeness and entrapment

cotton and leather

Material nature

Exit 2 hypha-gallery-east-village burnished and waxed to produceThis work arose out of Auguries of Innocence. William Blake envisioned a world where the infinite could be seen in the ordinary. This world was eternal and regenerative. Blakes Innocence has given way to the unquiet, where the future feels lost, quivering between decay and disappearance. My vandalised Blakean verse: To see a world in a grain of plastic, and a heaven in a wild inferno, hold smartphone in the palm of your hand, and exit in an hour marks