Hanged man
A4 notebook scan - collage cutouts
Acrobats
A4 collage cutout and drawing
Worship
A4 Cubomania
with @stevelovettcutbacks
Small head
6cm x 6cm x 17cm
Cardboard, golf ball, plastic gems
Palimpsest
A4 collage cutout and overprints
Untitled
A4 paper collage with biro
Untitled figure (after Laure Pigeon)
A4
Biro on paper
Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)
A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage
From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.