Palimpsest

Boy on the beach (with ley lines)

A4 collage

with @stevelovettcutbacks

Monet’s bicycle

iPhone collage

Photos of bicycle and hermit’s grotto my own

Red or Dead

Digital collage - own photos (David Altmedj at Mason's yard, canna, asemic writing on a bin, Javanese text from British library)

I have been loving using the magic cut and paste tool on the iPhone.

Hanged man

A4 notebook scan - collage cutouts

Moist

Iphone Digital collage

Pictures: Slava Mogutin, Leonora Carrington, Miguel Androver, gravestone (my own).

Cherry blossom roof

A4 collage

Collage with notebook cutout

giant

1990s

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.

Tree Team

A4 collage and digital collage