Disappearance I

First exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts, this work is part of a series that explores issues of identity, dissolution and change while engaging the viewer on several levels - a landscape of inner and outer perception at that intersection of observation and dream where new kinds of art can still be developed. Through an underlying narrative the artworks open different trap doors of wonder and ways of seeing that underpin my whole practice; of transmutation and metamorphic change in a vast cosmic dance - the unending dissolution of different forms, one into another, where narrative, fantasy and adventure fuse with the materials to offer different dimensions, both within the viewer's own psyche and in the physical world around. Offering direct equivalents to material physics and the nature of thought, they seek consensus in their own reality, and are, in their own terms, a form of realism - the owl is a flower, the goat is a flame - there is no death, just a rearrangement of atoms.