a reformed sculptor who has taken to drawing

There has been this impression that drawing is an archaic and obsolete form of representation; a minor subordinate to painting, as superceded by photography as the book will be by the Kindle(!). I would love to say that my aim would be to change all that. It had been a theme through my life that it is not good enough just to draw, though I was fortunate enough to be taught to carve in stone when I was still a small child and worked my younger life as a sculptor. Now I am an adult, having raised my son and aches and pains make carving a chore, I have turned back to the bedrock of my craft and plunged into the weird and wonderful world of perspective.

There is a grammar to laying places in space and when you think about it: this is as ancient as civilisation. Once the rules are learned, there is this amazing freedom to throw a stream of consciousness against a fixed horizon... because that's what perspective is. It's all about the individual viewpoint and recently, we've all been witness to some extreme perspectives.

Because each perspective is unique, there are associated manifestations that make it so; from the nature of the universe to the workings of the brain. I have great fun with such phenomena as pareidolia, lucid dreaming and the snapshot nature of memory, in a way that makes each image a cryptic puzzle to be solved into a narrative.

This collection seems to have resolved itself into a comment on that oldest of industries. From Langdale Pike to Disneyworld; sightseeing, is the name of the game.
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