Mark Jason Kemp

Mark Jason Kemp talking about his work "Sentences".

A collection of works that explore my thoughts, fears, failures and regrets.
My addictions, paranoia, psychosis, and the death of my two best friends.
one of which I witnessed being tortured and executed and one who just lost his way and who's life I could of saved, but didn't.

In essence it's ten years overdue, the above conditions being mostly to
blame, that and losing the use of my right arm. However, I have now overcome most of the above and have found a new art style to embrace whilst at the same time, readjusting myself to be solely left-handed.

The work was done in fine pastel, pencils, charcoal and collage, on a very small scale and highly realistic. The pieces were then scanned, manipulated and re-worked into multiple time lapse stills using my "new best friend" the computer.

This process I find, as well as being quite rare, not only fuses both the traditional and the modern, but it also allows me to take-apart a still image, then re-assemble it many times giving the piece a more defined timeline. So by introducing both a beginning and an end, neither of which are absolute, the image then ca, more easily convey such things as consequence reaso...