Self-portrait

Over time I have changed
Through multiple starting points and many opportunities, I evolved

How did authority get inside of my head?
A mind forged by manacles

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Leper Line 25th Parallel

It was so primitive

From the 1860s to 1950s

They were seemingly untreatable

They were feared 

There was panic

Colonies within a colony

A prison for the sick

Of appalling living conditions

Enforcing social isolation

GRIM and SHAME

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1981 An Ambitious Artist

1981 An Ambitious Artist

Back in ‘81 

When 

Times were fun 

As a fine artist 

With ambition in mind 

I thought of life

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LSL 60

At the age of 60, I thought life would be much easier to understand

In the '80s, I was painting art inspired by Fauvist, Cobra and Art Brut artists

I wanted my art to be raw, powerful and primitive

I was investigating our psychological and physical barriers as they failed to protect

I wanted to paint self entrapment where sickness and resistance hid any possibility of outwardly demonstrating wellness. 

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Singapore Botanical

It is the smell that makes life so compelling
The delicious smell of damp earth, fallen leaves and aged trees

Return to an old wood rain forest to feel it in

Sense the decomposing and surrendering of life
Get to know the secrets held by the detritivore community

Feed on the dead

The scent of organisms recycling
Making use of death for a continuation of life

And allow the decay within to regenerate

Picture yourself walking through a forest. 

The light is fading fast
You are racing to keep up with the light
Apart from your panic everything is perfect
What do you anticipate?

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Osaka Cool

For a shortish time I flew

Without a sense of weight

But I was to return

Fallen down

To here

Osaka Cool Twilight

Know your roots

Where you belong

And when you started to seperate

To become part of their world 

To be driven by  their emotional experience

To be part of another's assimilated narrative

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Osaka Displaced

Where to go when
When struggles and feelings are destructive to your comparative mind

When shifting displeasure from self-harm
To those who have the power to harm

Being denied by what you wanted
For all of those legitimate reasons that pre-exist

Osaka Standing

I see you in the distance
Some 7 lanes apart
Standing alone in the rain
At night sheltered by your umbrella
Alone and in public being by yourself
Not wanting to be noticed
That is how we live now

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Osaka Influencer

So many to influence
Persuade customers with your voice
Whisper that you know
Shout brazenly that you are trust
Influence consumption

A new channel
A new drive
A new target audience
A new way to convince people
To buy-in customer engagement
For our conglomerates to regain market dominance
I like you

Osaka Decision

Inside and outside

Without planning

Without the stress

Not caring about being in the right

Take the leap

From excruciatingly pointless inaction

Stop gathering  more and more information

Make your right decision in your right time

Step outside

Find your way forward

Wake up every morning refreshed

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Kyoto Street

Are you tired grappling with the complex problems
Your place in the universe
Take a contemplative walk
Make your choice
Select your frame of mind
Consider helping the poor and sick
Why hurry
Why catch up

Kyoto Street Tree

It is so easy not to see
When mass media almost always the leads the  story with hate
When religious media almost always justifies the story with damnation
When politicians almost always employ inflammatory rhetoric to gain votes

External attackers and internal disorder
The Religious,  Government and Military shepherds are selling us safety through our fear

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Kyoto Mound

Evidenced prosperity and eternal continuation
Meticulously realised

Requirement proof of achievement
Dedicated resources symbolised

Making sure the job was done
Finding a way to demonstrate the cause

Accounted merit & overlooked squander
Each concentration of power justified

Then scale is diverted to an even more grand stature
These the practices of the elite

The stories we tell ourselves

To allow it at home

The power of beautiful impressions 

Being both good and bad

Desirable and undesirable

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