END CREDITS 2018

ink on paper and vinyl cut

27cm x 37cm

'End Credits', an ongoing series of ink drawings come out of a desire to find a means of confronting the horror of the contemporary. Where the sculptures explore an alienation through the use of the displacement of Sci-Fi, these images come directly off the internet: news reel, mobile phone up loads, etc. They are images of explosions taken from current conflicts. Rather than trying to represent horror with horror, their scale is deliberately small (postcard size) and framed, reducing the sublime to pocket size, while the disposable digital image of convenience is fixed into analogue. The overlay of text, taken from the artist's spam box, suggests both comic absurdity and shock incongruity. Some are trite, others suggest profundity, but most are of awkward indeterminacy.