‘to see a world in a grain of sand’ - William Blake

 

‘paradise is exactly where you are right now, only much much better’ - Laurie Anderson

 

 

In my work I often:

 

make parallel series within different genres*. I neither have nor seek a single signature style.

 

stay within the parameters of particular genres, putting pressure on them from the inside out

 

use commonplace,everyday,sometimes banal, material

 

work with already existing, distanced ( photographic and/or printed ) imagery

 

‘turn’ material from its existing state to another

 

make something single, unique,from the multiple

 

reclaim things from the past and re-make them in the present

 

question concepts such as originality,authenticity, purity and expressiveness as goals.

 

 

*  ‘In that sense there is always something spectral - ghostly - in the generic since any new version or variant has in it all of the past variants somehow.  This quality is a sort of resonance or shimmering feeling which to me is an essential part of aesthetic pleasure.’

Jeff Wall

 

 

Roger Woodiwiss 2007