The Night I Discovered My Bones

10cm x 30cm sketch

The last post for today, I promise. With new blogs I always feel I have to get up to speed with all the current projects going on. Anyway, this is the first sketch for a new series of works (as yet untitled) which will be showcased in an exhibition in April 2010. Long way to go yet. The sketch here recalls an experience some nine years ago when stood in the corner of a room, held my arms aloft and watched my skin peel away to reveal bones. One of the first times I felt the presence of my own organic body-ness. The final piece is intended to be 60cm x 180cm, as are the whole series of works.

And She Whispered Numbers Into Me

30cm x 10cm Sketch

A new sketch based on an early morning dream which was only fragmentarily remembered a few days later on reading the phrase 'she whispered some numbers to me'. It immediately reminded me of a very similar salvia divinorum experience some years ago in which numbers were physically inserted into me through the power of speech. A surreal thought, and a positive one for the creation of this artwork, which has already been marked out on 90cm x 30cm canvas. I intend the background to be mostly dark, and the skin colours to be partially-obscured by arrays of numbers. The long lines are to be bright blue to create a hopefully electric visionary intent...