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On The Move In Barcelona
‘On the move in Barcelona’ combines three images of a woman pushing a trolley outside a building in Barcelona. She’s could be a hotel worker who’s using her brief journey to catch up with family or friends. I was impressed with her ability to have a conversation that probably took her miles away from the her hard regular duties in the work place.
Having worked in the past as a labourer, gardener and super market worker I remember the times when my mind would just drift off – particularly when I was doing boring and repetitive work on my own. This is why I’ve created a dreamscape for the woman to walk through with her double – signifying that she’d most likely made the same journey many times before but each time with a different perception.
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Numbers
‘Numbers’ (mixed media on paper) attempts to examine the digital world as it is manifested through the mobile phone. I’ve deliberately placed the man (photographed in Liverpool) with his phone on a circle or a 0, a digital symbol. He’s captured by a digital gadget. The question is does his phone bring him closer to the world and his surrounding environment or seperate him from it?
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Nativity 2023
Today more than half a million people in Gaza, a quarter of the population, are starving, according to a report on Thursday by the United Nations and other agencies. The finding highlights the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Hamas’s October 7 attack. This comes as the Gaza Health Ministry revealed that the Palestinian death toll had now topped 20,000 people. The extent of the population’s hunger eclipsed even the near-famines in Afghanistan and Yemen of recent years, according to figures in the report. The report warned that the risk of famine is “increasing each day,” blaming the hunger on insufficient aid entering Gaza. “It doesn’t get any worse’,” said Arif Husain, chief economist for the UN’s World Food Programme. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed.” Thursday’s report on the staggering scale of hunger in Gaza underscored the failure of the United States, one of the few remaining allies of Israel, to insist on a ceasefire. The world is watching genocide in real time on an unspeakable scale.
‘Nativity 2023’ is a photomontage of a traditional nativity scene where baby Jesus has been replaced by a dead baby wrapped in a bloodied white shroud. The backdrop is a bombed city in Gaza. There are no stars – just a threatening drone reaping destruction. From the river to the sea one day Palestine will be free.
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