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NEW IRN MURAL 2018
This piece of work was made over many layers of abstraction, combining elemnents of penny coins, flags, cubes and grids. It hinges on an element of comic relief and an attitude of playfulness. The murals aim is to be disrupt every day experiences into reference points for a sense of identity, deforming material into a pantomime of bangs, a description of a leap of faith; staking a banner in the ground in a groundless commodified setting. I was inspired by images that provoke a sense of provincialism, that are already present in towns and cities: welcome signs, football club emblems and things unkept in the day-to-day. There can be seen a promise in these experiences, in a stalling pre-Brexit UK, as one of a still activable world. a bygone and present wonderland of mundane olds among looming futures; hammers, flags, land fill, concrete and metal signs. The attempt at reanimation of this simple content into a propaganda vision, an improbable utopia, show off conflated and ambigious semiotics and possibilities. The creeping in of imagination, against the odds, and dispersion of static ideas whilst also harking back in seeking something solid.