Moleskine update, a few new pages

 A few new pages from my current Moleskine. I have been studying human personality traits, and how we humans adopt certain behaviours without being aware of them. Like those who have a deep seated need to be heroes and are constantly on the lookout for unfortunates to save.

 Then there are those who know they are black sheep and rather than improve their own conduct, look to persuade others to join them down the wrong path. There are plenty of willing 'victims' who are happy to be led astray.

We have those with a controlling nature where they feel the need to be in charge of everything and everyone. They believe that the world can't function without their input. Sometimes I sit back and people watch, at times motives and urges are burningly obvious to the onlooker, At others they are better disguised. In all cases they are compelling. They provide the grist to my mill, long may we continue!

An occasional dose of culture, Alex Mazhari

Alex Mazhari is a young artist, a recent graduate of Brighton University and a in my humble opinion a very talented artist.Alex has a brand new blog where you can see more of his brilliance!
http://alexmazhari.blogspot.com/

new moleskine pages again

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I have a few new pages to show you. I have been looking into setting up an Etsy shop to sell prints of my work as there seems to be a gratifying demand for reasonably priced, good quality prints for sale. I will post the details in due course.
most of my work seems to be tightly bound up with familial relationships, the ties that shape us and make us who we are. I have been thinking about that a lot lately, going off on flights of fancy imagining what and who I'd be if I had different parents. Maybe even the worst parents can offer one thing, and that is an example of how not to raise children. It is such a universal subject that is relevant to just about everyone. Loise Bourgeois maintained until her death at the ripe old age of ninety nine, that her artistic driving force was her relationship with her father, and the affect his behaviour had on the family. It loomed so large in her life that she never felt the need to explore other feelings.

A new moleskine March 2011

So much of my work reaches back to my childhood, I feel a great need to give a voice to my 5 year old self. At the age of five I was a master at reading people and behaving in a way that would save me from trouble. My antennas were on constant alert, it was exhausting, but it was a survival mechanism. As an adult I am free to say whatever I want but why then do I still feel afraid?

I used to fantasize as a child about having superpowers, I was convinced there was a way to acquire them, all I had to do was wait for a sign. It is obvious now that these fantasies stemmed from a deep sense of powerlessness and frustration. Ok, enough with the amateur psychiatry, the less said the better.

I am posting a couple of pages from my new sketchbook. There is not much to say as they are pretty clear.

New Moleskine pages.

This one still needs a few finishing touches.

These pages are the last few pages from my current Moleskine, I will starting a new one tonight, if anyone knows a cheap source of these of these particular sketchbooks I would love to hear about it!

moleskine stuff II

A few more images from moleskine April 2008.

Moleskine stuff

A couple of pages from my April 2008 moleskine.