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Metamorphosis. The Evolution of a Winged Primate.
Images of death, chance, honesty and enlightenment.


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Figure Prepared for Flight
2001
Oil on canvas
80 x 60cm  
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Figure on a Precipice
2002
Oil on canvas
60 x 40cm   
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Higher Primate 1
(Portrait of Degas)
2002
Oil on canvas
60 x 40cm    
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Figure on a Precipice
2001
Oil on canvas
131 x 91cm    
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Falling Figure
2001
Oil on canvas
129 x 101cm  

 

 

     
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Figure on a Precipice
2001
Digital photo
& oil on paper
29 x 18cm   
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Icarus (Figure
resigned to flight)
2001
Oil on canvas
148 x 105cm   
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Primate Alighting
2001
Digital photo
& oil on paper
20 x 18cm
 

 

 

Metamorphosis. The Evolution of a Winged Primate.
Images of death, chance, honesty and enlightenment.

Metamorphosis, the evolution of a winged primate, is about taking your chance as a primate with wings.
Evolution has enabled us to communicate; we are able to express ourselves through music, through words or through the visual arts. We are monkeys with the opportunity to express ourselves.

This is about human potential, our ability to do all things and our capacity to be all things. The relentless march of time and the fragility of existence are forever present, many people have their chance taken from them and so the unpredictability of death makes each day vital. These sometimes troubling notions ultimately inspire and create the drive to achieve more.
My images of death are not death in its finality, but the death of complacency and stagnation. These leaps are leaps of chance and the wings, wings of opportunity. This is my life and your life. This is about being all you can be.

 

 

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