This first image is a visual description of how a person can be trapped inside a personal web of individual emotions, each one conflicting with the others. I suppose you could call it the 'World Wide Horror Web'. The person shown is actually my brother, and as you could most probably guess, this is not one of his favourite portraits. The original is printed on to a mixture of latex and muslin with the use of light sensitive emulsion, and then attatched to a frame with pieces of wire to emphasise the web structure.
This is the fourth image in a set of five which was part of my degree show. It tells how a person has to struggle with conflicting emotions and negative outside influences, when trying to enter a new phase of his life. The piece can be interpreted in a number of different ways, one being a gateway from death to the afterlife. There is a piece of text to accompany each of the five images which does articulate the story more clearly.
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