I feel that working with the theme of Metamorphosis also has a personal agenda that I was perhaps subconsciously not admitting to, it has been brought to my attention that although I am not trying to portray a father & son relationship, the struggle of bereavement has caused a change in my own outlook, this has also been equally evident in my dress sense, the new 'corporate clobber. i.e suits as opposed to my regular seditious attire is a incorporation of working practise, my oeuvre which for the best part of my artist career has been illustration and semi-abstract oil painting, is now focused on video installation and digital manipulation.
This new addition to my working practise as been a struggle from start to finish, it has brought many accomplishments and new avenues that were before untrodden, but it also allowed a freedom of distancing myself from the unavoidable entwining that oil painting had before been so destructive, although I find a freedom in video work i am not like my previous endeavour bondaged to each canvas, I am able to terminate the monitor, to swicth off, to focus on more multi-dimensional planes, without the laborious mechanical shackles that painting demands.
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