CUBISM 2 - Limited edition 2 of 50 - Limited Edition of 50 Photograph

I started my design career as a graphic animator in Soho, London. When I left art college I was in my early twenties and at that time working in video production still felt like some form of alchemy. I made great friends, learned from groundbreaking directors and honed my craft. But much of my heart was still back at art college ...kicking about listening to the Clash and Pixies and learning about the true magicians, the real Punks like Picasso, Kandinsky, Braque and Duchamp. Perhaps as an antidote to the world of corporate clients, agencies and production deadlines I began to take pictures. I started with street photography, observing the everyday energy of London, but still with an eye for the graphic... the lines that cross and fade into the distance, the shadows that slice a frame in half . I think the form and shape created by random objects (what many would call junk!) has always caught my eye and informed my work. Tired, distressed, forgotten objects. Rusty bits of metal sticking through broken roofs. The messy collage of torn paper billboards. the squiggle of wires bursting from disused radios. I'm equally seduced by the colours used in old sweet wrappers, retro kids comics and the 1970's typography found in disused workshops. Form and beauty in broken, forgotten, unseen stuff... My photo collages are a progression of this idea. A cocktail of random shapes, objects and places which tell their own stories because when thrown together they become something new....something quite different and alive.