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Through various media - painting, video/animation and collage, I attempt to explore collisions of meaning, duality within imagery and a sense of the uncanny. The idea of seduction and repulsion is important within the work on both an aesthetic and conceptual level. The flux of multi layered references flips us from anxiety to ecstasy to melancholy to horror. A hypnotic aesthetic binds it all together; in keeping with modern societies increasingly voracious appetite for quick fix fulfilment. Inevitably we end up narcotized, adrift in the void, stuck in a perpetual loop. However, there is also a sense that through destruction there may be the possibility for re-newel, for creation, metamorphosis and therefore evolution. All of this essentially occurs within the same alternate universe, from one work to another there is a potential non-specific narrative link that forms a cast of characters, props and locations
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