Artist Statement
My foolproof 12-words eliminate the blank page.
My 8-stations mind-maps mine subtext.
My techniques combined — practised:
- I excavate my underworld, teenage nightclub
- I descend Bette Davis stairs in a bespoke denim ballgown.
- I hold an exorcism in an 8-station forest.
I uncover, I am a portraitist who draws the subconscious, using tools shaped over 25 years; myths; philosophy; through a romantic lens.
HOME. MMIW. Time-lapse by @S.b.hughes
Armed By the Gods
After his wife Eurydice dies from a snake bite, the musician Orpheus uses his lyre to charm his way into the underworld and persuade the god Hades and his wife Persephone to let her return with him.
12-words; 8-stations are the weapons that keep me safe as I charm my way into my underworld to take my soul by its hand and lead it above ground to be my limitless subconscious creative life-partner.
Orpheus is told not to look back at her. Or she will disappear.
There is no need to look back. My soul is talking to me the entire journey. 'Yes, I’m here.' ‘Are you there?’ 'Yes, I’m here.’ 'We have inches to go — can you see the light?’ ‘Yeah, I can see the light.’
I can teach you how.