My friend brought me to his wife’s village, Tinh Bien, in remote southwestern Vietnam, in An Giang province near the Cambodian border. There is a large Khmer population there. A man let us into a Khmer Bhuddist temple that featured dazzlingly colourful religious murals on every square inch of wall and ceiling.
Read More Inner sanctumAt the heart of the Khmer empire lies an astounding accretion of monolithic temples. The scale of Angkor is mind-binding… It is difficult to imagine how it was accomplished. As grand as the Egyptian pyramids yet more complex and ornate, the structures are coated in bas reliefs of man, gods and entities in between. You […]
Read More AngkorCommunism is alive in Vietnam. I dig the old-school commie fashion sense, red and yellow on olive green, a look going back to revolutionary Russia. Propaganda speaks for itself.
Read More PropagandaMore and more animals are starting to walk upright. What’s happening? Some kind of reality wave washed over everything. There are reports of chimpanzees who seem to have evolved, that they’ve learned how to use fire and are burning each other’s villages. Minds bent against it, trying to figure it out… Things have changed and […]
Read More Naja Naja KaouthiaDetail from ‘The Sixth Progression’ : mixed media, paint + collage, circa 2009
Read More 6ixth ProgressionA fleeting shape at the corner of my eye and an earthy smell like ferns. I turn to see a liquidy movement of limbs pouring forth. The thing speaks as it walks on hands and then feet, words that are like packed dirt, a baritone filling my ears like mud. “Ah child of the sun, […]
Read More Yogatron‘ Mixed media art, completed in winter 2008/’09 for my parents’ dining room. Colours were chosen to match the room. ‘Sleep Taxonomy’ : acrylic paint + collage.
Read More Sleep TaxonomyThere are people who claim to have been through the rift, a transient crease in time’s pace that assembles events in random configurations, often with bizarre consequences. The only way it’s possible is if the Calculix is real. It’s not any crazier than believing the laws of the universe are true and have had their […]
Read More The Calculix , Part 1A work in progress with coloured pencil… Attempting to capture an ephemeral vision, like trying to nail down a cloud.
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