Funeral of John F. Kennedy, 25th November 1963.

Photographs of the Kennedy family.
Circle cutouts and colour photocopy and re-photographed.
I have recently become interested in icons and how they are portrayed at particular moments in time; that are very specific to that individual. I have been using the images of JFK's funeral as I recently found an original copy of National Geographic magazine that contained the whole funeral in photographs.

The Presidential family and The Oval Office.
Colour photocopy, circle cutter.

The Flag over the Casket of JFK, with assorted world leaders.
Colour photocopy, felt tip.

Venice Postcards

Postcard views of famous Venetian landmarks that I haven't visited, but would love to one day. I am interested in the subtle re-working of the surface, by cutting and re-forming the image.

Friday

I have been working on a series of ideas this week, seem unable to settle to one set of works, so I have decided to work on all my ideas at once. So; I have been reconfiguring post cards of places I would like to live and do live, Venice and Ipswich, respectively ; I have been working on a series based on a National Geographic magazine I found of President Kennedy's funeral (this mainly involves counting the people in the cortege) and producing works for a zine in the USA called Abalcabal.

Postcards of Ipswich

I am thinking about how you can take bland, mass produced imagery and subvert the surface in a subtle but ,ultimately, destructive way.
Postcards of Ipswich with repositioned centres.

New Images of Ipswich

Postcards of Ipswich with all the dots from a page of stickers.

Work in MOMA collection

The Book about death show that has been in the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York has now moved to the Queens Art Museum, New York and also to the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. If any one is in the area to visit.
The show is about the idea of the unbound book, artists were invited to submit 500 postcards on the theme "about Death" and then visitors to the gallery could collect the set to make up an un-bound book.
One of the book sets has been purchased by the MOMA in New York for their permenant collection, which is very exciting.

Ipswich model.

High St. Annexe and Museum

St. Margarets Church and Bolton Lane.

Unknown Church Ipswich town centre.

Fore St.

Willis Building.

Corn Exchange (missing).
Mobile phone photographs.
These photographs are of a set of 3D models of Ipswich circa 1960. I have been obsessed with maps and plans for a very long time and how they can be used to trace your place within society, both literally and metaphorically. I hope to use these photos as part of my on going interest in recording the places that I live, have lived and wish to live.