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'For the Sake of the Species' 2014 work developed and selected in response to the call out by Gustav Metzger. Shown at the University for the Creative Arts [Farnham]. It was a privilege to speak with Gustav about the work - he requested a copy of my proposal. Gustav Metzger - Facing Extinction - The Exhibition. Fine Art Student Responses 7 March - 5 April 2014. Photography by Stephen White. https://gustavmetzgerucafarnham.wordpress.com/

 the intimacy - it affords, skirting around the edges or periphery of BIG ideas - motif of a flirtation within those realms. 'a shift in power from the centre to the periphery' - things in the margins. This is a digital showing of a work that originated as a sculpture, now shown within the context of  'still-life' photography. The objects appear as if in a dreamscape. The materials a direct reference to contemporary life [ lifted from] The small sculpture/collages have become 'fetishised' through the isolation of the screen, existing in an ambiguous homogenized landscape. The work questions the boundaries between originality and conceptual inventions - allegorical - freezing the temporality of a narrative allowing the frozen tableaux to serve the imagination.

#smilesimulascrum Dear Simula The social theorist Jean Baudrillard argued that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real but becomes truth in it's own right. ie; the Hyperreal. Kind regards Crum Dear Crum, I take your point however may I suggest a return to a simplified aesthetic, make it more about allowing the materials to suggest the narrative? Perhaps recent works have been too overloaded - I feel they are like drawings preparing for the 'actual'. Simula #everythingisamaquette

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the day i became an accidental algorithm or was it accidentally becoming waking  up realizing that somewhere along the way having become an algorithm                           an unconscious accident product  of the            divisive anaesthetic properties of my  device #notsureaboutthewordsyet# #yetsurenotaboutthewords#

to heighten the emotional intensity and expressionist violence of her poetry. the references to atrocities so disturbing in their incorporation into a poetic performance that also deploys the language of advertising, mass-spectacle and pornographic self-display - 'the big strip-tease that the peanut-crunching crowd shoves in to see' the poem figures the crowd's fascinating eyeing of her body parts and fingering of her blood as a debase, commercialised martyrdom. the reader in turn/or further irony, becomes uncomfortably aware that he/she is one of the 'crowd' lured into marvelling at the terrible wounds and scars that the work tauntingly chooses to parade and that while the narrator apparently derides and parodies the 'theatrical' exploitation of suffering 'L.L.' makes use of the very techniques that it mocks and elicits precisely the curiosity that it condemns - in order to deliver it's charged narrative of victimization and revenge. an ...

a  small discrete curation 'acts of Appearing' sculpture collage object 2d abject collage and a drawing details to follow --------------------- text is crucial to my practice both reading/writing that osmosis  between the in and out like breathing the structures r transpositions  that fluency of thought manifests itself intimate intravenous

An Aesthe Tize deprive of feeling or awareness administer an anaesthetic to [ ] especially so as to induce a loss of consciousness #smilesimulacrum

a space where work can drop in real time alongside its' digital echo a safe space where the work is allowed to exist as itself for itself with no other agenda fresh space real time safe space this is an actual place eat fresh

Notes from my recent talk at The Whipple Museum giving some context and background to 'Strange Chimera' the work was shown as part of Cambridge University's Science Festival 2017. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello - and thank you for coming along today to see the work and hear me talk about it. I would like to thank the Whipple Museum - for allowing me to firstly access the collection and then to show the work in this fantastic space - also thanks to the library for their kind permission and helpful guidance regarding texts to reference in relation to the project. Maquettes for Strange Chimera in the Whipple Museum I would like to read my current artist statement to give some context to the kind of work I make and the process I employ. ARTist Statement My practice is expressed through the composition of constructed hybrid objects, working within the mediums of sculp...

temporality; the state of existing within or having some relationship with time - like spatial position, temporality is an intrinsic property of the object. in a philosophical context - temporality is traditionally the linear progression of past present and future allegorical; allegory has the ability to freeze the temporality of a narrative allowing the frozen tableaux to serve the imagination love this Slo-Mo

The Theatre of Anatomy  Interesting to bring this juxtaposition of the past into the present. Looking at the work of anatomist Frederick Ruysch [1638 - 1731] Ruysch is renowned for his extraordinary tableaux, or dioramas, which incorporated skeletons and bio-botanical backdrops. These were arranged/presented with the themes of vanitas, transience and mutability in mind. The still life genre originated in the Netherlands and the vanitas still life, with it's emphasis on the all too swift passage of time and the impermanence of the human condition was symbolised through the use of skulls and flowers; an allegory of death and mutability. Observation serves imagination.

Current 'state' of the work.

'if only we could uncover the incidents in the past - of the betrayal of her ego ideal that made her now so helpless' 

sapien; of, or relating to, or being recent humans [homo sapiens] Chimera; a thing that is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve  republic; a group with a certain equality between its members The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss brandished the term 'bricolage' to describe the process by which a closed set of materials is combined and recombined to come up with new ideas.

Review of the show at ASPEX Gallery Video/Poem by Alastair Cook Installation Views  'For the Sake of the Species' 2015