Titles ( L-R) : "D'Vale", "Red Horny Boy Ride", "Starting Blocks" and "Itchy Lawn and Sticky Fingers". "Down Diego" is yet another thread that I just noticed within the group of new drawings. It is another of those works that engage, the unmentionable or unseen - tropical suburbia in the late 60's. I like it because it contradicts much of my usual concerns about the use of the women's bodies within conventional gendered narratives. It carries a recurring theme that I have avoided or deferred for some time now, but this series is not about being rational. It's about sensing rather than censoring. In one of my early texts in the 90's, I heard myself referring to Diego Martin as " that suburban fungus on the landscape" what of this moment from my growing years would create such a reaction / description.
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Really like the Tropical Night series. They are wonderfully atmospheric. I was struck by them because I'm trying to do smeting similar myself (I'm a final-year art student in Dublin Ireland), have got 100s of drawings and painted drawings of basically my holidays to the sun, and was wondering how might make something of them, and your presentations that I've seen on the net are great, really sucessful and an inspiration. Keep it up, it's great stuff!
All the best,
John
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