Found Portraits from "Archeology of the City"

Archeology of the City The work I make evolves around myself, my places and my experiences. My senses are conscience of how everything around me (us) changes with time. People come an go and traces of us are left behind. This is the archeology of the city on one level. Nature plays a role in my work. The elements change the landscape (the cityscape). Patina develops and the futile, unimportant remnants left behind by man become omniscient objects with personalities and ‘gestaltes’ of their own. In this work organic paper remnants, found throughout the cities where I lived and walked are left carelessly behind. They are fugitive in the scheme of life and yet were tellers of fashion, advertisements, cultural festivals and plays and so they wreak of love, passion and also man’s ever growing materiality. In their forgotten state a new story unravels. They are like fossils, cliffs. Like the layers of the earth in between which the lost cities of man reside. Archeology of the city on a deeper level. Their colours are now that of the earth, ochres, ultramarine, turquoise, and siennas. They are the earth, the stones the pigments with which man tells his stories. The I mounted each image in layers, the layers of the city, the layers of the earth. The white margins now provide the lattice work of the window through which we look, through which we see. Each picture becomes an intimate memory. A face, the bark of a tree, the river bed or the field but also the remnance of things abandoned by man. paintings from Lascaeux to Kiefer. They are mans’s story. With these pigments I create a new ‘painting’. Archeology of the city. Archeology of man.