I’ve been experimenting with the idea of the film strip and working in both positive and negative.
A film strip in negative allows for text to sit over the top of a dense tonal base. In some ways this is preferable to large areas of white. This is part of a separate but related idea of a street at night and a journey through a terraced street of identical housing. There are number of experimental versions, each four to five metres in length.
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It hadn’t occurred to me until I read an article about the slow demise of the baby boomer generation and a shift in the profile of art collectors, that I am part of that generation and all that it accomplished, not just artistically but as the motivating force behind...