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Clearing out Uncle Nigel’s flat I unearthed an unused pad of 53gsm A3 Typo paper, a box of compressed carbon and some rolls of masking tape. I tore a strip of tape and stuck it on the last sheet of paper, drew over it with a stick of compressed charcoal in one gesture then flipped the next sheet over and retraced. I repeated to the beginning of the pad with the form becoming less distinct page by page.

I am left with a receding form as though of a great sea monster glimpsed near the surface then slowly sinking, disappearing into the abyss.

The Abyss is of course the Unconscious. Sea monsters from myth are really messengers or messages from the Unconscious. They are symbols. What are they symbols of? That’s where it gets interesting.

But while I was making the work I was thinking of how we are all forgotten eventually.

There are 50 plus drawings. I’d love to see them all displayed one day.