Paintings

To give these abstract figures an emblematic, if slightly unhinged, appearance, the artist utilised a wide range of synaesthetic colour values and took great delight in leaving the viewer at the same time confused and enchanted. One such example is the bizarre Bird Eating Man Eating Bird. We observe a bespectacled, egg-headed scientist furiously hammering code into an ancient mainframe computer blissfully unaware of the peculiar, bird-like monstrosity howling abuse him. At the same time an equally strange, long-necked creature is staring gormlessly into the imagined photographer’s lens as if asking us what all the fuss is about. Personage is equally confusing. Are we viewing a spaced out paranoid playing with the controls of some god-awful infernal machine or are we just simply observing the poor wretch playing with himself?