BIO

here Are No Communists There Are No Nationalists Anymore

To do printmaking is to understand the importance of historical context. That the act and craft itself cannot help but be both historically linked to the proliferation of knowledge, and the amassing of capital inherent in the productions of the multiple object. Latent within the contemporary fine art process there is a murmur of these two contexts competing. That is to say that the print process possesses both the smell of its revolutionary past (freedom of the press the publication of political propaganda etc) and its modern recuperation in the form of mass media and the commercial multiple. It is then as important as in any other field that we return to and confront our history to properly understand our current cultural and political paradigms. In particular this involves an assessment of the legacy of May 68 i.e. the fall of the left, the rise of activism as lifestyle, the use of icon, and the impossibility of old forms of revolution, which broadly make up our liberal tolerant postmodern landscape. The prints I produce therefore are often failed attempts to reclaim imagery to perform the impossible and de-contextualize. They are then in a sense a series of follies that demarcate the limits of motivated imagery.