Over the past three decades I have worked with images and texts of the Apocalypse as my main area of research.
During my many periods in France and at The Cite des Arts I have poured over the figurative and abstract elements of the Apocalypse in Painting, Tapestry, Glass, Fresco, Woodcuts, Mosaics, Prints and Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts. This series’ of Glassine prints and screen printed collage, encapsulates in a minimal fashion the primary meaning of the word “ Apocalypse’, rather than works normally associated with the Apocalypse; the dense horrific images of a world gone mad through the base and vile nature of humanity and the satanic forces behind their actions strategizing the destruction of these fragile puppets, and the earth. The actual Biblical meaning of the word ‘Apocalypse is ‘an unveiling’, a ‘revealing’ of Jesus Christ, and then subsequent to this the tumultuous period of time which leads up to Christs second coming and the revelation of all things at the end of the Age.
The images in the three works are gleaned from the figurations found in French and English medieval manuscripts and Apocalypse tapestry. Of course the medieval language of the Apocalypse flowed through all the eight forms of expression mentioned above, with gestures, stance and landscape familiar in all the iconography, however the images in these printed fragments are particular to the French illuminations and tapestry.
Paris, especially at the Cite des Artes has afforded me so many wonderful memories and long periods of sustained work in my practice that I guess if I ever thought of relocating it would have to be to Paris, where one can sink into ultra rich history or fly still with ones feet on the ground into the future.
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