Public Order Emergency Repairs - Oil Pastel on Found Wood - 16

Public Order Emergency Repairs - Oil Pastel on Found Wood - 16" X 16" - sealed with acrylic varnish

Part of the Day Collage collection where I paint things I've seen throughout a single day, or a series of days, and place them all together in a single space.

Patterns from tiles, walls, murals, paving slabs or advertising - religious icongoraphy from buildings, pamphlets or books - people - graffiti and street art - discarded objects - road signs or building signs - logos - faces - shapes - cultural symbols - food - nature - transport..... all things that capture my attention, particularly as a neurodivergent person with a hightened sensitivity to my surroundings.

I show the world through my perspective - one of an observer and a perticipant - taking in all of the disconnected and seemingly unrelated things, places, people - that I see around me - and placing them together - overlapping, jostling for space - oblivious to one another's significance or even existence and yet strikingly apparent to my eyes.

These works often turn out to seem in some way unintentionally poloitcal or politically motivated - and I think, that's because that's kind of what politics is - a lot of different, contrasting, unrelated, disconnected cultures and idealolgies and subcultures and people and places and histories and objects - all competing for space or striving to share space or take up space or take away space.

I drift through and take note, without bias or commentary. I draw what I see...and there is something cathartic in putting it all down; getting it all out.