Fiction of the Spectacle

Bullitt

Whilst Peter Yates' 1968 film Bullitt is perhaps best remembered for the high speed car chase through the hilly streets of San Francisco, the final scene has the character Bullitt chasing Ross on foot across the busy runways at San Francisco International Airport - Ross is eventually shot dead in the Terminal building whilst running through the exit doors.

The Studio

"Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting they walk out. And if you're really painting you walk out."
Philip Guston

Travel in Mind

'A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.'

John Steinbeck

In Cold Psilocybin

"The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time".

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

Drawing Test Sheet

One of the colour test sheets produced whilst making the drawings for the Itinerant Illustrator exhibition in Bangalore India 2014.

The Age of Myth