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colour
between the stars
gouache on paper
23.5cm x 17cm
salmonComplx noun.
/ˈsamən/ /ˈkɒmplɛks/
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name given to humans urge/ need for creative expression
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describes the cyclical pattern of the creative expression
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so called salmon as the individual has to surrender old habits to allow for a new creative expression to take hold
edge of namib desert
namibia 2014
Panasonic Lx3
CCD Sensor
suspended man
thoughts/ideas
video
50word
story
Self empowerment is good for some.
Amelie settled into the beanbag and adjusted the headphones. She shut her eyes to concentrate while her finger marked the chapter ‘unleash your hidden power’. An ant wandered onto her neck, distracting her. She wiped it off and turned up the volume.
colourScapes
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Self empowerment is good for some.
Amelie settled into the beanbag and adjusted the headphones. She shut her
eyes to concentrate while her finger marked the chapter ‘unleash your hidden power’.
An ant wandered onto her neck, distracting her. She wiped it off and turned
up the volume.
![P1450721[2].png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f07e84_e38c1691d61d40e1b54f75131b2aa06b~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1800,h_1200,al_c,q_95,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/P1450721%5B2%5D.png)
star burst layer
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midday,midnight
panasonic lumic Lx3
CCD Sensr
feetabout
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thank
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thank you to
family Fawcett who gave me a home and space to paint
Dom who invited me to Sark, and accepted me sticking around
Noor who couch surfed me near Lascaux
Jamal and long walks in Marrakesh
Zach and Berber pizza
Cracker Jacker (we)Slackers
to all the people who helped me on the road
to my family who gave me a home once covid struck(and my nephew who
slept in the lounge to do so)
Vivic who lent me Penelope Cruise-r to jol the cederberg and for the Uffizi lesson
all those years ago
and to my mother,
a gentle lady with a fierce conviction
and simon,
i wonder every day what/who you would be now
i doubt i would have been so forceful in my life decisions
without the realisations your death gave me
that this all passes
and the trinkets in our lives
are so very unimportant
i saw an exhibition by Henri Cartier-Bresson in the late 90's in london. i remember the reviews saying how you didn't have to crop any of the images as he had composed the shot perfectly. i kept wondering what lay just out of sight on the edge, uncaptured. A lot of photographic exhibitions i saw at the time dealt with issues that i don;t read so much of anymore. The perfect shot, the responsibility of the photographer to taking a shot or be it as a witness to events . somehow instagram seems to have dealt with those concerns.
in 2002 i spent a year in australia and fruit picked for 9 months of them. on my return to the UK i thought a lot about aboriginal art, especially after the dreamtime explanation that eddie gave me. late one night i was watching a documentary on aboriginal art and it suddenly struck me that if you suspended a camera far above the ground, pointing down at the ground. and if you took a shot say every 10min for a few hours and then layered them on top of each other, so that tracks of animals crossed over others, then you would have a time delay photographic version of an aboriginal painting. tthat idea fascinated me. the idea of space and time being painted rather western form.
i had bought a SLR camera in new york in 1997 but it was stolen on millennium eve, from my backpack whilst on the embankment for the fireworks. it took me another 9 years before i would have another.
In 2009 during a band rehearsal one night I was overwhelmed by trying to capture what was in front of me and created my first photo montage with my nokia phone. I soon bought an Lx3 and thought a lot about how i was trying to lay fragments of time down to compose an overall image. much as i had seen in the aboriginal paintings i had seen. It was a way of mixing street photography whilst playing with the idea of not only being a witness but actively within the image, composing it and by seeing people stiffen as they approached me , i riealised that i was having an affect on them.
feetabout become a stepping stone to painting. in 2015 i took a number of prints and stuck them up on church walls and public squares around barcelona. I handed out magnifying glasses to those that stopped and in doing so i realised i had said all i wanted to say with photography.
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Self empowerment is good for some.
Amelie settled into the beanbag and adjusted the headphones. She shut her
eyes to concentrate while her finger marked the chapter ‘unleash your hidden power’.
An ant wandered onto her neck, distracting her. She wiped it off and turned
up the volume.
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50word
Story
people in the park series
salmonComplx noun.
/ˈsamən/ /ˈkɒmplɛks/
suspended man
panasonic Lx3
CCD sensor
" The American Psychological Association defines complexes as a group or system of related ideas or impulses that have a common emotional tone and exert a strong but usually unconscious influence on the individual’s attitudes and behavior. This means that complexes comprise core patterns of desires, emotions, memories and perceptions that unknowingly influence the way a person thinks and behaves."
when i was 13 my eldest brother was killed in a bicycle accident. it felt at the time as though someone had come with a sword and cut through all ties between myself and those around me and the earliest events of what shaped me. with one sweeping cut i was cut adrift from the life i had known up till then. slowly over time i made sense of much of it and accepted what had happened but rediscovering that time before has taken many years. finding that creative sense of myself , that part we are all born with has taken the longest of all and perhaps it will take my lifetime.
the salmonComplex is the name i have given to the process of my creative force within. these images, words , drawings and paintings is my search for it. i have looked back, to rediscover the earliest parts of me, the parts that were always within me and shaping me. in how i looked at the world and looked back within me. like sedimentary layers i have tried to show that in this exhibition,intertwined as they are and within me. the past ever present.
i came to think of my process like a salmon life cycle. we are born with our creative force within. we use our curiosity to explore. with time, i feel that when i am bored or uninspired that something within has died. ii is usually a sign that i need to return back within myself to bring forth a new inspiration with which to explore the life i hold.
a salmon will swim the world only to return to where it began to bring forth new life.
my creative force seems to live a similar cycle
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Self empowerment is good for some.
Amelie settled into the beanbag and adjusted the headphones. She shut her
eyes to concentrate while her finger marked the chapter ‘unleash your hidden power’.
An ant wandered onto her neck, distracting her. She wiped it off and turned
up the volume.
Star burst is a way to link the different creative expressions i have explored over the years as i try t find the thing i have been searching for. the different stages dont seemed linked when i did them but when i began to put them together i fund a certain connection , like a thread, weaved through them all. or perhaps i am reaching to high in my explanation. no doubt that each led me onto the next and like sedimentary layers, lie ontop of each other
colourScapes
colour
between the stars
gouache on paper
23.5cm x 17cm
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Self empowerment is good for some.
Amelie settled into the beanbag and adjusted the headphones. She shut her eyes to concentrate while her finger marked the chapter ‘unleash your hidden power’. An ant wandered onto her neck, distracting her. She wiped it off and turned up the volume.
50word Story
50 word story was my starting point. i had done little creatively within my life from the time i finished school until around 1997 when i bought an SLR in new york and photographed non stop until the camera was stolen in 1999.
i joined a writing group in willesden green,london in 2007 and writing allowed the first stirrings of reaching for something but i just didn't know what. the 50 word story here aren't that good but they were my start. from there i learnt a little trumpet and piano before receiving a work phone with a camera that led back to photography, then drawing and painting. so the words here are to show where i began
about
somerset house
london 2010
i saw an exhibition by Henri Cartier-Bresson in the late 90's in london. i remember the reviews saying how you didn't have to crop any of the images as he had composed the shot perfectly. i kept wondering what lay just out of sight on the edge, uncaptured. A lot of photographic exhibitions i saw at the time dealt with issues that i don;t read so much of anymore. The perfect shot, the responsibility of the photographer to taking a shot or be it as a witness to events . somehow instagram seems to have dealt with those concerns.
in 2002 i spent a year in australia and fruit picked for 9 months of them. on my return to the UK i thought a lot about aboriginal art, especially after the dreamtime explanation that eddie gave me. late one night i was watching a documentary on aboriginal art and it suddenly struck me that if you suspended a camera far above the ground, pointing down at the ground. and if you took a shot say every 10min for a few hours and then layered them on top of each other, so that tracks of animals crossed over others, then you would have a time delay photographic version of an aboriginal painting. tthat idea fascinated me. the idea of space and time being painted rather western form.
i had bought a SLR camera in new york in 1997 but it was stolen on millennium eve, from my backpack whilst on the embankment for the fireworks. it took me another 9 years before i would have another.
In 2009 during a band rehearsal one night I was overwhelmed by trying to capture what was in front of me and created my first photo montage with my nokia phone. I soon bought an Lx3 and thought a lot about how i was trying to lay fragments of time down to compose an overall image. much as i had seen in the aboriginal paintings i had seen. It was a way of mixing street photography whilst playing with the idea of not only being a witness but actively within the image, composing it and by seeing people stiffen as they approached me , i riealised that i was having an affect on them.
feetabout become a stepping stone to painting. in 2015 i took a number of prints and stuck them up on church walls and public squares around barcelona. I handed out magnifying glasses to those that stopped and in doing so i realised i had said all i wanted to say with photography.
midday,midnight
panasonic lumic Lx3
CCD Sensr
badalona, barcelona
2015
Valencia
2015
feet
tap,hold and release to magnify image throughout website
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Self empowerment is good for some.
Amelie settled into the beanbag and adjusted the headphones. She shut her
eyes to concentrate while her finger marked the chapter ‘unleash your hidden power’.
An ant wandered onto her neck, distracting her. She wiped it off and turned
up the volume.
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one of the themes of my work is space. no, not the giant deep inky blackness far above us, although that has its affect. rather how we fit into the world around us and how it affects us.
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be curious as you explore