YOU BROKE MY HEART Painting

I usually work in series. This painting is from my latest series SUBTITLED. Each painting consists of a figurative section and the title of the painting rendered in pictographs. As we attempt to perceive what we are looking at through language, is it possible that we actually shape the words so that they correspond to the image of the object seen, the action observed or the sensation felt? As words are spoken the mouth makes shapes as if to illustrate the words; pictographs are created and words become visual representations of their meaning. The shapes on the paintings are transcriptions of the shapes the mouth makes while speaking the words (and just after the words are spoken). In some cases it takes time to realise what a shape represents or to accept what it is. I think the theory applies to between 30 and 60% of English words. It is not a case of looking at a mirror but of saying each word slowly and concentrating on the mouth (and of course the tongue). I have used this idea before in a series based on the first 19 lines of THE WASTE LAND by T.S.Eliot. At the time an article about my theory appeared in THE INDEPENDENT’ It was entitled ‘What happens when you say “kiss”’. More articles in national newspapers are planned.