I intend for the viewer to always be thrown back to the beginning, to a complex and seemingly impenetrable surface – always only ever beginning to find meaning. I intend to incorporate both nihilism of the everyday and its progeny –imagination - by appropriating elements from Romanticism and Surrealism. To clarify, my attitude does not imply the original surrealist idea of a freedom from rational control or psychic automatism, rather a juxtaposed montage that suggests a sense of place, and the magic of joyous escapism. This suggestibility is exactly that – one suggestion amongst many that may arise in interpretation, yet perhaps not enough to constitute any conclusion or definitive reading. There is a kind of unworked romanticism in this attitude – something that can remain forever elusive, yet acknowledge its own failure. I hope for my work to be read as expansive – something that resonates beyond interior poetic space.

I am fascinated by the chic of urban romanticism, and I hope that in confronting the spiritual to manifest a sense of a bereft philosophy – an inexplicable sense of loss. In amongst all this is a search for some kind of significance – a sense of place or purpose - usefulness and the responsibility for choice everybody has at their disposal.