Vulnerability and Rigidity series (various Clowns)

(left to right) I always loved you, I just didn't understand you until now, 29 x 42 cm, acrylic on paper. I always loved you, I just didn't understand you until now II, 34 x 25cm, acrylic on paper. I always loved you, I just didn't understand you until now III, 42 x 29 cm, acrylic on paper. Image of Me, 29 x 42cm, acrylic on paper. Sooterkin, 32 x 24 cm, acrylic on paper. 'Vulnerable party' and 'The Twelve Apostles as Babies' are two key narratives that weave through the whole practice. Vulnerable Party relates the search for a supremely divine clown leader- humane and genuinely open, with strengths and weaknesses acceptably exposed. However, the ideology is incompatible with the idea of a ‘Political Party’ or movement, since it concerns individuation. Thus, the party is reduced to a one-person campaign, without cabinet or voters. The Twelve Apostles as Babies narrates the babies’ development to old age. Arriving for the second coming without Christ, they’re required to work things out for themselves. The children dress as Ghandi, Johnny Rotten and others, as they learn the good deeds of those who came before and after them; eventually spreading their good news through various careers.