Blind Spots is a recognition of all the things we do and do not see, or the things we choose to look at.   

Modern worlds throw up imagery at such a pace that it is impossible to keep up.  We peer at things that bring joy, that are informative and equally those things that appall.  Each of us with our own self-curated window onto the world*, a personal digitally refined view. 

*today, mine contains imperfect bodies, arrests of protestors, state brutality and symmetrical beauty.   

I've found myself glued to images of tragic proportions.  The atrocities in Gaza, forest fires, state violence, Death and hunger in Sudan, war in Ukraine and other places, collapsing seas, frail coral., the list goes on.   At some stage I had to change my algorithm so as not to unsee these things but instead see these things from the perspective of hope.  People who stand up for what is good and right are my heroes, many of them putting their bodies and their freedom on the line.  

This work contains images of protestors being arrested, often violently by the state.   The UK has been a brutal example, but it is not isolated.  Arrests of protestors outside a weapons industry conference in Ōtautahi and the interception and capture of people delivering aid to Gaza in international waters are images that seem unreal to be watching in real time.   I capture images via screenshot before making a painting of them, using the softness and beauty of watercolour to subvert their original crass, hoping they are all just a surreal nightmare. 

Presented here side by side with other subjects in my periphery.  A thousand remedies for a menopausal body, famous folks that got old, and the beauty of symmetry.