Arty Bollocks Generator

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My work explores the relationship between acquired synesthesia and emotional memories.

With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and Frida Kahlo, new combinations are created from both explicit and implicit textures.

Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the traditional understanding of relationships. What starts out as hope soon becomes corrupted into a cacophony of lust, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the chance of a new reality.

As shifting forms become transformed through emergent and personal practice, the viewer is left with a glimpse of the edges of our future.
My work explores the relationship between the body and urban spaces.

Gil Scott-Heron RIP

I was sad to read about the death of one of my musical heroes – Gil Scott Heron, born 1 april 1949, died 27 May 2011 aged just 62. What a great man you were, poet, musician, author and activist.

He died in a NYC hospital after a flight from England. No cause of death has been officially released, but his body was ravaged from decades of alcohol and drug abuse, and in 2008 Scott-Heron said that he had been HIV positive for years. He was born in Chicago in 1949 and raised from age 2 by his grandmother in Tennessee after his parents separated. He seemed to predict his own death on INH, saying:

"Yeah the doctors don't know, but New York was killing me/ Bunch of doctors coming 'round, they don't know/ That New York is killing me/ Yeah, I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee."

After his parents split, Gil moved to Lincoln, Tennessee, to live with his grandmother, Lily Scott, a civil rights activist and musician whose influence on him was indelible. He recalled her in the track On Coming from a Broken Home on his 2010 comeback album I'm New Here as:

"absolutely not your mail-order, room-service, typecast black grandmother."

She bought him his first piano from a local undertaker's and introduced him to the work of the Harlem Renaissance novelist and jazz poet Langston Hughes, whose influence would resonate throughout his entire career.

As a result, he became increasingly politicised and made B Movie in 1981. It was a thunderous, nine-minute critique of Reaganomics, that stands out as the most representative track of this period. I love how he puts it:

"I remember what I said about Reagan... meant it. Acted like an actor... Hollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted like a Republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate."

RIP you wise, beautiful man.