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Drawn after the BLM protestors toppled the Colston bronze and dumped in harbour. Here I imagined approaching the shore of an unknown island with indecipherable monuments to a fallen civilisation tumbling into the sea. I wanted it to be more chilling than Shelleys Ozymandias where the traveller is arriving centuries later. Here he/she is arriving in the immediate aftermath.

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I drew this after Trumps walk to St Johns Church on June 1st. I had a vision of what the fall of a civilisation might look like.

playing with this tape, carbon, spray technique drawing old sculpture from memory in dark, poorly lit basement like working in a darkroom. I developed the idea of making sculpture to draw, rather than drawings for sculpture during MA. I have never made drawings or maquettes for sculpture, preferring to work free and direct.

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Paper, masking tape, compressed charcoal, stanley blade, sprayfix.

In my mind were the BLM protests and the surveillance state with its militarised, politicised police force. How the Right decries the big state as socialist but happily deploys and imposes its force upon communities to attack, intimidate and antagonise. Started reading about the Defund The Police Movement. The rich don’t live in communities like the proletariat do. They live in gated ghettoes with private police to protect them. They are self-separated. The working-classes sustain their communities in spite of having no protection from the rich and whilst besieged by the police. They are excluded. The rich are by their nature anti-social. The poor are social as an act of resistance and as an expression of humanity.

I made a large graph based drawing with carbon and masking tape with a removable central panel that was meant to be about missing data. But I have also been thinking about the Minotaur and Labyrinth as one does from time to time and emptying out an upstairs room (I draw in the basement) I found a minotaur mask I made with my son years ago and it found its way onto the wall where I draw. I wasn’t very impressed with the paper drawing but the process left piles of carbon on the formica desk top that I attacked with my fingers and the strips of masking tape torn from the drawing, channeling my anger caused by govt manipulation, mishandling and misappropriation of scientific data for their own ends, into the discarded material, and located a bull charging out of the lines. Part bull part cockroach.

old sculpture new photo. A few years ago I dismantled an old piano and kept various components, all hand made stuff. This is the spine of the beast.

There are anarchists that don’t see value in leadership and there are leaders who find a value in anarchy.

More graph based drawing. This time taking on the form of a bunch of flowers for Johnson and his nasty, anti-social cabal of lazy, self-interested libertarian anarcho-fascists.

On a non-material level its the stinking vessel called Body powered by its effluent ego engine.