An ongoing series of paintings and drawings inspired by porcelain forms (phossils) I like to stack up as still lifes in the studio. For me they become fossilised totems of photographs. Totems, historically, were primarily vertical poles/structures with visual representations of kinship, depicting family crests and clan membership. In other words they were stories embedded into a solid vertcial form recounting the past. The difference with these stacks/totems being that you only get glimpses of the story within each photograph as each one obscures the one beneath it. With others, there is little information or none on each layer and one is only left with a notion of time as with the layers in geological strata.

Image 1 – ‘Cluster 17:16pm 20/02/22’, 50cm x 65cm – graphite, phthalo blue ink on paper
Image 2 – ‘Cluster Screed’, 65cm x 70cm – graphite, phthalo blue ink on paper
Image 3 – ‘Cluster 11.15am 21/02/22’ 28cm x 28cm – graphite, phthalo blue ink on paper
Image 4 – ‘Cluster Screed’, 65cm x 70cm – graphite, phthalo blue ink on paper
Image 5 – ‘Cluster 15:27pm 20/02/22’, 50cm x 50cm – graphite, phthalo blue ink on paper