Can I call You Rose? 2025 - present

The thread that connects all the work whether it be figurative/representational or abstract is the nature of being human and the passage of time.

Whenever I've mined abstract imagery it's always stemmed from an obsession with anatomy which I started studying at the age of 16. The forms have always implied something biological.

Anatomy for me has always been inexorably entwined with the passage of time and death as our life is dependent on this very vulnerable infrastructure.

In the 1980's I put actual bones, vertebrae into the work as a metaphor for that tenuous connection between physical autonomy and it's literal collapse if any of those delicate puzzle pieces should fall apart or decay.

This is further accentuated by the process. the photo-transfers are enlargements of 8" x 10" photo's that have been destroyed with acid that causes the emulsion to melt implying our own physical and mental deterioration over time.