Page 304 - Demo

Woman are the seat of humankind. They are the half of humanity from which we all emerge into this world. As a man, I am no more than an ant to her queen: one in a billion spermatozoa desperately swimming towards the egg. As I acknowledge this, why would I not spend years imaging women? My images are also about the influences of mass-media penetration into our thoughts through television, film, and the Internet, through both c o m m e r c i a l a d v e r t i s i n g a n d entertainment. I feel that virtual %u2018experience%u2019 through story-telling in all forms has also influenced who and what we are as much as truth and physical experience. In the future, the intrusion of virtual experience will over-take the daily input of real experience. My images are created in the playground of that scenario. Nothing is real already. We merely think it is, but we already achieved the future goal and are now all immersed within the thing we constructed. If anything, my images represent the red pills and the blue pills of The Matrix. My art is not about brutality towards woman. It is about putting woman at the centre of unexpected events. The most profound event that will happen to you the reader is being born, and you have already forgotten that event. The next biggie is dying. My images represent for me a personal view of the events in between those two moments in my life beyond the %u2018normal%u2019 things of living and raising children. They are glimpses into human imagination and our primal fears and desires. But there are limitations of course: some born of the players on my stage and their acceptance of what I wish to show; some born of my own morality, or fear of what some people might wrongly think of the results. All of us imagine so many things we deem not to bring into reality. We think dark thoughts as well as good ones, and most of us choose to leave the darkness rightly imprisoned within our minds. We should not for one moment though assume we can all keep them locked there. mol