Over a period several months, I have been busy creating new body of work. It has been a rather slow but very considered time spent in my modest studio space, but can now unveil my new creations. I am hoping to commit these to an exhibition at some point, and in the meantime shall be sending exhibition proposals to galleries and see if one of them takes the bait.

'From Remnants comes an Altered State', a working title, brings together a series of collages, assembled from postcards, newsprint, wire structures, remnants, fabric, woven components and other such miscellany from my personal archive of materials and images of interest collected over the years, and discarded from previous projects.

Themes include the shadow, sexuality, identity and the self, altered states, forms of erasure, second skin, shrouds and new states of mind. A number of pieces include homages to other artists or to their works, while other contemporary artists and artefact are referenced elsewhere in the series.

The use of collage opened sets of possibilities that allowed me to make free assoications to use found imagery and create imagined 'imago', experimenting within a framework of the body and self portraiture that explore parallels within the self that shape themselves and shift from the mere remnants to metafigurative beings.

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