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ECONOMY is the first chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau projected onto a wall or screen, one word at a time, each word fading into the next. The text is stored on computer and the work has a total running time of 37 hours and 53 minutes.
The EVERYONE PROJECTIONS attempt to show the name of each person an individual met in their lifetime. Each name fades slowly up from black, pauses for a moment, and fades down to black. The text is stored on computer and projected in a lit room.
The CARDS are a series of unlimited editions, free to take away from plastic holders. They show quotations from the writings of other artists.
The STUDIO PAINTINGS show the address at which an artist or writer worked.
They are an ongoing series, begun in 1995.
The POSTERS show texts taken from the writings of other artists. The Hans Christian Andersen posters refer to his fear of being buried alive, a fear that meant he left a note by his bedside that said 'I only appear to be dead'.
The STATEMENT PAINTINGS show texts taken from the writings of other artists.
The ISLAND PAINTINGS show the names of fictional islands. Despair is the name Robinson Crusoe gave to the island on which he was shipwrecked.
The four panels of MONT SAINTE-VICTOIRE list all the titles given to Cézanne's paintings of the mountain.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF JUDO by YVES KLEIN
Translated and typeset in 2009 for The Everyday Press, London.
The first English translation of Yves Klein's 1954 book
Les Fondements du Judo
, typeset and printed in a
transimile
of the original.
SOL SANS is a typeface based on Sol LeWitt's handwritten sentences on conceptual art.
IDEAS is a postcard produced with Peter Foolen Editions, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
COUPLES is a work in progress, based on John Updike's 1968 novel.
The BUSINESS CARDS are a letterpress
transimile
of Yves Klein’s business card
circa
1955 in an unlimited edition.
PROVERBS OF HELL by William Blake typeset in Sol Sans.
THE SUN IS BUT A MORNING STAR - two prints derived from the title page of Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
MAZDAZNAN HEALTH & BREATH CULTURE
A newly edited, illustrated & appended edition of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish's book published in 2012 by Open Editions, London and Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University).
THE DEMONSTRATION OF GENTLENESS
HD video showing identical twins Helen & Kathryn Cartwright performing the Ju-no-Kata (as described by Yves Klein in his book
Les Fondements du Judo)
. Commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University).
BECOMING INVISIBLE
An instruction manual, video and group of paintings that describe a technique for disappearing from view derived from the literature of Rosicrucianism, theosophy and esoteric yoga.
BECOMING INVISIBLE (ISBN 978-0-956173-89-8)
A guide & visual primer that describes how, potentially, anyone can achieve the goal of becoming invisible.
Published in 2014 by The Everyday Press, London.
A BREATHING BULB
A bulb that fades up to an intense brightness and down again to black, each fade taking seven seconds.
MAZDAZNAN LIGHTBOXES
A group of lightboxes that show students performing the exercises described in the book Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture by Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish.
ERY NZARAMBA DEMONSTRATING TWELVE FINGER EXERCISES FROM THE EGYPTIAN POSTURES
Photographs showing a set of esoteric hand and finger exercises.
WHITE CLOUD FORMING
A group of paintings that attempt to manifest the white cloud of invisibility.
THE EGYPTIAN POSTURES (ISBN 978-0-993372-85-8)
A guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises taught by Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus.
Published in 2017 by The Everyday Press, London.
ON COLOUR... (ISBN 978-1-912458-08-0)
On colour and its generation, projection and retention during partial manifestations of the white cloud.
Published in 2019 by The Everyday Press, London
BECOMING INVISIBLE IN THE BASCULE CHAMBER OF TOWER BRIDGE
An esoteric son et lumière, a monochrome mass-hallucination of colour and an attempt to vanish.
TRATAKA (ISBN 978-1-912458-10-3)
Published in 2020 by The Everyday Press, London
PHILATELIC ITEMS - LOLLY BATTY (ISBN 978-1-912458-15-8)
Published in 2022 by The Everyday Press, London
TWO LETTER WORDS (ISBN 978-1-912458-19-6)
Published in 2022 by The Everyday Press, London