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“Art enables us to find ourselves

“Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton, writer

This work is something to do
with voluntary and involuntary visual expression

This work is something to do
with voluntary and involuntary visual expression
and what we might show to people we don’t know.

By using this website, I am collecting,

By using this website, I am collecting,
reproducing

By using this website, I am collecting,
reproducing
and changing images

By using this website, I am collecting,
reproducing
and changing images
that I (and other people) have made.

By using this website, I am collecting,
reproducing
and changing images
that I (and other people) have made.
Some of these digital and abstract images
I will probably use again and change.

The original impulses or initial processes
from and through which I made these images
have mostly been forgotten.

The original impulses or initial processes
from and through which I made these images
have mostly been forgotten.
Some may be discernable in an image.

The original impulses or initial processes
from and through which I made these images
have mostly been forgotten.
Some may be discernable in an image.
But there is probably something morbid
about the work from the start:

The original impulses or initial processes
from and through which I made these images
have mostly been forgotten.
Some may be discernable in an image.
But there is probably something morbid
about the work from the start:
– frozen moments; dead labour; looking back.

The original impulses or initial processes
from and through which I made these images
have mostly been forgotten.
Some may be discernable in an image.
But there is probably something morbid
about the work from the start:
– frozen moments; dead labour; looking back.
I hope some of the work though
is anticipatory and moves you.

A website like this is both a personal and public space.

A website like this is both a personal and public space.
It is coloured by a kind of voyeurism
or fetishism or fake intimacy.

A website like this is both a personal and public space.
It is coloured by a kind of voyeurism
or fetishism or fake intimacy.
Until we work and act together, we can’t help but
be separated by consumerism.

A website like this is both a personal and public space.
It is coloured by a kind of voyeurism
or fetishism or fake intimacy.
Until we work and act together, we can’t help but
be separated by consumerism.
But, perhaps later some of the images
could be broadcast from other sources

A website like this is both a personal and public space.
It is coloured by a kind of voyeurism
or fetishism or fake intimacy.
Until we work and act together, we can’t help but
be separated by consumerism.
But, perhaps later some of the images
could be broadcast from other sources
or projected onto other surfaces
and/or made into moving pictures

A website like this is both a personal and public space.
It is coloured by a kind of voyeurism
or fetishism or fake intimacy.
Until we work and act together, we can’t help but
be separated by consumerism.
But, perhaps later some of the images
could be broadcast from other sources
or projected onto other surfaces
and/or made into moving pictures
by more people.

In the meantime

In the meantime

we’ll see

In the meantime

we’ll see

Thanks

In the meantime

we’ll see

Thanks

Andy Ridley