I recently took the oppertunity of a light snowfall to photograph my icebergs in a more recognized setting for a block of ice and to see what happened with this change of context. Ive always enjoyed the dialogues we strike up when adding to a specific site and have always had somewhat of an issue with showing work in a gallery space and losing this level to the work. In this case the chosen sites were informed by the object (the iceberg), an attempt to seduce the idea that what we are presented with is actually occuring. These experiments also brought me around to the idea of what displaying in photographs can bring to my work on both conceptual and technical levels. A photograph is a record of an actual event and we all know how the saying goes 'the camera never lies' but we also know this is not the case. A photograph can add a certain level of control to what infomation is communicated and can tweak the truth through this emphasisation.

Thankyou Jordan Baseman.... and Picasso

At a recent talk hosted by Jordan Baseman he was talking about how his editing of real footage gave him the ability to lie by tweaking the truth. Somebody in the audience asked why it was important to do this. He answered by saying because this is art, art is atifice, art is artificial.............

it seems so obvious a link but it was a link i had never consciously made, it also allowed me to make sense of what i am actually doing with my work, tweaking the real to present an altered perception of it.

"An artist lies to find a new kind of truth" Pablo Picasso

Special delivery

Special Delivery, 2009

the decision to construct the pallet from cardboard pushes this work to a stronger position for communication of my ideas. Now the entire work is a made thing. Its a mimik of the real but in a situation which would never occur. The materials used are straight from manufacture, so fresh infact that they lack certain qualities of the "real world" and this seems to reinforce the falseness of the situation I've put them in. As packaging materials they hold a reference to protection and insulation of items during travel, this assosiation makes sense of being part of this delivery scenario. Although when considered at greater length there are many floors to what we have been presented; cardboard would not survive in the role of a pallet and shows no signs of going through this role. Although there is a product being delivered on the pallet it is made from a material used to protect the product. Again with the iceberg, it has a history of making epic journeys but the idea of it being delivered in this manner is implausable.