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Art is, in the language of signs, what poetry, philosophy and fiction are in the languages of words. As such there are dialects, competencies, vocabularies, personal vernacular, jargon. To say that one doesn’t understand art at all reveals that it is the idea of art that has been alienated, not the ability to recognise and engage with art on any level. Certain modes of art will surely be unfamiliar, and one may be inexperienced in discernment in an analogous way to how one’s palate might be undeveloped in a gastronomical sense, limiting the tastes one has acquired. It would follow however that the underlying ability to appreciate and to create art is as natural and inalienable as listening and speech.

Sometimes
someone will resonate more with
something I have made than I do
There is no direct line
that joins the act of making art
to the separate act of appreciating it

The observer’s inconsistency is equal to that of the subject
Each interaction transforms them slightly
Each is something different now
This picture no longer represents the same things
This description is no longer accurate













Non-committal

Linocut on paper
104 x 64cm
Variable edition of 5 + AP
2017

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Serra’s List, Revised (pts I & II)

Ink on paper 
Diptych
2018

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