Post J.G. Ballard Nightmares

It 's still 11.15 here and I'm dead tired, I just had a 3 hours sleep last night thanks to bad, weird dreams and loads of ideas that kept on popping in my head.

On my drive back home last night, I had this idea of doing a collage and paint series depicting crashes of cars I feel related to.  When I arrived home I did some reseach about car crashes, found some good images showing bad dents and all, saw some footage from crash tests, such as the link below which shows one of my all time favourite models being tested.

Minutes after I switched everything off and went to bed, my head literally busted with idea and I came up with the following which summerize my feelings from last night drive and the concept behind these new works.

IT IS BETTER TO DIE IN A CAR ACCIDENT THAN DIE STARVING

Here we go, you boredom oriented fear seduced citizen.

Car crashes are just a sex bang.  When speeding along open roads, headlights blinding you from the opposite lane, have you ever got the feeling that you need to crash cos it feels that it's the right thing to do at that moment?  

Don't you lust for an impact, a hit, an encounter with a stranger?

Only if you approach a turn at top speed and break suddenly you top up the sense of relief only that can only be compared to an orgasm.

Here are my very first sketches related to the theme...I like the grey coarse cardboard feel, charcoal and pencil lines, black/white cars and the hints of colour.  Tomorow I shall experiment further with just white and use thick primer and light washes to enhance my works

Times they are a changing

Check out what this girl is trying to do! I think that it's a wonderful idea considering the limitations of my native country, where I believe that most people, although not homophobic, still does not understand and appreciate the queer culture much.

I believe that this channel would celebrate the alternative attitude found within the queer community in Malta.

Co-incidently I was working on some small scale paintings related to androgyny and bisexuality.  Below is an example of such works:

So basically I offered any help needed with the project and it seems that my works are going to be featured on this channel.  Seems like it's gonna be a busy and interesting summer :-) I just love busy summers with 40 degrees and (hopefully) heatwaves during the day, sweating my ass off in the studio, tons of beer, driving in the sun with ska on, long discussions in the breezy nights, ye I love being an artist.

Wasting a Thursday, being busy on Friday....

On Thursday I spent the best part of the afternoon sipping beer and enjoying an intelligent conversation with two Germans. From beer we turned to wine and I got home late, hungry and tired, which meant I did nothing from the work I intended to do.


Friday is quite busy as well...this morning I'm off to visit an exhibition called "An Educated Guess", which shows works from MCAST Degree students, and the rest of the day is already planned out...so I guess that the canvas stretching and new lino plates would have to wait until the weekend!

Back from Berlin

Brand new blog for me! As most of you are aware, i am just back from the hub of art in Europe, Berlin!  I was staying in Kreuzberg where new street art is seen everyday and art events and music gigs are on 7 days a week! The photos posted are just a tease of the huge amount of street art found in my area 

Never a lazy sod when it comes to art, I came back from Berlin on the 16th of May with my head bursting with ideas and a huge desire to work even more!  And yes, I finally made up my mind and decided to create a blog and keep all interested folks updated about my new projects, exhibitions and the odd entry about myself and what I’m up to when not locked up painting.