#things upcoming

So I’ve completed the Sign series for now, mainly due to the expensive paper and the cheap pens I’ve been using for it suddenly disappearing from the shelves in my area. But just as much because I think I’ve gone as far with that as I can with my limited ability, and I’ve learned plenty from the process of making those drawings that I can use in other series in the future. If I have a future.  Of all the projects I’ve worked on Sign has been the one I’ve been most pleased with, There’s something satisfying about taking ideas and styles you've been playing with since age 12 and using them in a focused way as a slightly more experienced adult. Taking one aspect of what I’ve been doing to it’s logical conclusion. 

I’ve also completed one more series of 40 drawings based on the outside of the human body as well as about half of another series that I’m starting to get excited about. For a long time I’ve been trying to find a way to express something about the way things are here in the UK and with these two series’ I might be on to something.  With the first, which I might call Situ for some reason, I wanted to do something more with the distorted-contorted bodies that I like to doodle sometimes. Though I didn’t do as well as I wanted to and I really learned more about what not to do than anything else. With the second, which doesn’t have a name yet, I’m able to use those same bodies in simplified architecture, painful confinement and isolation. I live in a post-industrial part of the country, Pitchshifter town, not far from Godflesh land and that has been a source of inspiration. It’s dark in a way that Sign and Situ aren’t and I hope that with it I can say something about how bad things have gotten in a very general way.