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Happening in March!  [ catalyst mind expander all the words written - love you ] Tender Vessels is a series of images presented as a visualisation – or thought process – describing a closed set of materials and motifs that are embedded within my practice, the substance of which is my visual language.   These new configurations are highly manipulated photographs of physical sculptures created in the studio which have been subjected to the filters and editing process of the social media experience. The images have an ethereal transient quality [almost like an x-ray] and it is interesting to view these through a social anthropology context. Although the work is made up of six individual ‘closed’ images there is an affinity or dialogue between the works. The work is questioning the role of social media in society – how do people interact within these closed new spaces? The title is referencing the idea of individuals as the ‘vessels’ and the hopeful wish for ‘t...

'i feel like there is a cloth covering the world - a perfectly white cloth - and when it is lifted off and all the forms are revealed the shapes and objects are more felt than seen or thought - a vibration or rhythm that lies deeply inside of things. Deep in pillows - float - like sticks on the stream - still as bewildered' Writing from the boy inside me -