..I stare into the trees at dawn and see in the silhouettes, images(faces - portraits) of friends past and present..
Diary
...the cows are lying down in the field opposite, in yet another new formation.
what signal are they sending today?
.....are animals as stupid as we believe!
..if its a dogs life, I reckon its a white dog, with some grey bits...but i might be wrong...
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Marty St James in Antarctica
Earlier in the year St.James completed an artists residency on bases in Antarctica, courtesy of the Argentine Chancellery and Argentine Airforce
Marty St James - Home
Homage (Live Performance/Video - Self Portrait)
The Swimmer (Video Installation - Portrait)*
Marty St.James Being in Time
Marty St. James is a modernist (visual artist) in post-modernist clothes.
As an artist his primary medium is digital technology but his concerns are firmly rooted in the spiritual and Utopian subtexts of modernism with its hallmark of self re-flective thinking.
Whilst existential alienation of the Outsider, as exalted by Colin Wilson, Camus and Sartre, opined that life was futile, that it was characterized by estrangement, such nihilistic thinking, ironically, acknowledged its mirror image.
For doubt, per se, admits to possibility. While Vladimir and Estragon knew that there was ‘Nothing to be done’, they nevertheless, waited, in anticipation, for the imminent arrival of M. Godot. Modernism admitted to a gap, to a god-shaped hole at the centre of Enlightenment is humanist enterprise…..Somewhere or In between places (Marty St.James) …firmly in this arena between exhausted modernism and a world dominated by bland of celebrity and co modification.
Sue Hubbard Art critic of the Independent Newspaper (see Writings)
* National Portrait Gallery Collection - London, UK