After four serious operations, a serious hospital superbug infection and other complications, the year 2018 can’t come to a close fast enough and I hope I can stabilise next year. At the start of the year my work was still based around the Modern Beauty … Continue reading2018, a review; towards a computational expressionism
A lot of writing has been done on how narcissistic selfie culture is and indeed it’s a valid interpretation. The notion that someone feels their life is of interest to others does display a degree of narcissism. My take on selfies and selfie culture is … Continue readingRomanticism and Selfie culture
I was recently thinking about how oncoming death affects artists and their creativity and I remarked how struck I was by the sadness in late Rembrandt self portraits and how they reflect my own current state of mind. A long chain of associative thinking got … Continue readingHaunted selfies; the digital Dorian Gray – works for sale
I have completed and released a new album called “After, Life.” It’s an album of quite intense, serious pieces, mostly (I always have some whimsy in there). That’s for a very good reason, it’s a meditation on the feelings surrounding my own mortality. Written in … Continue readingDying and the art of creativity