Moleskine Diary pages

i read a story in a newspaper recently about a man who scouted for women in the lonely hearts pages, he'd invite them to a romantic picnic, listen as they poured their troubles out and at the end of a perfect afternoon would dispatch them without a second thought. He rationalised his actions by saying that he saved them from lonely sad lives after giving them a good time, it was an altruistic act of ultimate kindness you see!

Moleskine Diary pages

It is widely believed among the old wives of Arabia that a bite by a rabid dog results in the human giving birth to a litter of puppies. My Arabic grandmother was convinced of this, and knowing our English obsession with dogs, would warn us of this on a regular basis. This only acted as an incentive as far as I could see, to find a rabid dog to bite me. I was going to get a litter of puppies one way or another.

Life on Our Moon

This portfolio of hand-tinted lithographs purports to illustrate the "discovery of life on the moon." In 1836, Richard E. Locke, writing for the New York Sun, claimed that the noted British astronomer Sir John Herschel had discovered life on the moon. Flora and fauna included bat-men, moon maidens (with luna-moth wings), moon bison, and other extravagant life forms. Locke proposed an expedition to the moon using a ship supported by hydrogen balloons. what an imagination, and of course they had to sex things up a little!

We All Vibrate

This Is a group I did for a show that never happened, they are called 'we All Vibrate'. I had read a scientific article on the fact that everything vibrates at an individual rate, and how we respond to certain people depends on how our vibrations interact. I have always been fascinated by how we give off so many signals and cues that we are not consciously aware of but pick up on anyway. Life is so complex!

A selection of older Moleskine Diary pages

Moleskine Diary Older Pages

More older Moleskime pages

Although this image is fairly self explanatory, I can give a little background. For 3 years I commuted on an almost daily basis to Brighton, where I was doing my degree in printmaking. I developed an addiction of sorts to cheap gossip magazines with their lurid images and shocking stories. they gave me an intense course in the human psych, and it never ceased to amaze me just how willing people were to reveal stuff about themselves. the magazines inspired me with narratives to dissect. i liked the vulnerability and sheer humanness I found there.

Coming from two cultures, two religions and two vastly differing world views, I feel caught between east and west, so I pick and choose from both sides and make up my own quilt of values and beliefs. This image is an attempt to understand how people can have such differing ways of looking at themselves.