What defines us? Are we form or detail? Area or volume? Depth or surface? Our material body is well represented by art and science but what about the non-material self? Not just its influence, but its mechanics too. Imagine CAT scanning cave art, Egyptian and Greek reliefs, literature and contemporary art and finding the same ghostly shapes beneath and within all of the surfaces. Do we reference memes and archetypes or do they reference us? And to what ends, if any?

Nicolas Bourriaud says that ‘Meaning is the precondition for art to exist’. I am interested in how we seem to require Meaning. I would consider myself successful if I portrayed not Meaning, which may or may not even be real, but the activity of our search for Meaning, how it may be defined by language or driven, fed and informed by the Unconscious and by how we place ourselves at the centre of things and thus outside, clambering to get back in. As artists we can only produce objects. That is to say things that are acted upon by a subject. But we can make objects that describe our requirement, our need, to make or somehow experience the non-object, or rather the search for the reconciliation of subject and object, otherwise known as Truth, the search for which creates Meaning.

I use stone, sand, charcoal, lime, iron oxide, iron filings and paper, carving, blasting, rubbing, peering, trying to lose a sense of direction, of beginning and end, cause and effect, to mimic the search for Meaning. .

In my latest work I represent pictorially the reality that requires that everything can, must and will be described in words. So, I observe wordlessly, and act wordlessly and describe the world view that demands words, wordlessly, as an act of humorous defiance, or paradoxical parody. Nothing is ineffable = Everything is effable and yet here is an object containing imagery of figures who seem to be, but are not using words. So here is an object that wordlessly says that the search for Total Description is paradox .