Blogs are a wonderful way to record free associating on the net. They are also fantastic tools to search for 'found images' which you can reinterpret and represent in a completely fresh context. I started in Central America with Glyphs, then stumbled into tattoos and finally focused on Gay Cowboys; transforming them into more rarified etchings. Unfortunately you learn by your mistakes and having created two beautiful families of tattoos grouped under Lions & crucifixes I lost the lot!!
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Travels thus far
My original idea to visit various ancient sites that I have visited during my lifetime and use some of the symbols to create a history or memory collage came to me in the bath. I wondered could I pull together a collage altar in the style of the day of the dead altars that I had seen in an exhibition many years before in the old Museum of Mankind. In practise my limited skills for updating my blog slowed me down so much I have just concentrated on my memories of Mexico and Guatamala
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