the telling stories mode

From Achilles Shield
Unfortunately linking up with Libya.



At present, my work seems to be going instinctivly back toward the telling stories mode: making pictures or things that comment on something else that actually exists, or illustrating a story already written, or making up my own narrative. Very often a slice of a yarn that need not have been completely written or finished, but is expressed (mainly) in paint form as though it was finalised and brought to a conclusion.
The other alternative, which at present I seem to be moving away from, is the creation of artifacts that simply exist in their own right.
Maybe this is a clumsy way of explaining them as they seem to need to exist in a specific environmentin order to work. – T o become apparent as to what their own existance is about.
-So they are beholden to other factors – they have to fit into an area, both physical and social, in order to become relevent, explainable, and to produce their own life and existance.
But their actual narrative is largely their own: as a viewer , the audience by and large makes up the history, function and coundrums involved.
Possibly,
The main reason I am moving back to the telling stories mode, is that these expressions exist in their own right, they are largely relevent to wherever they sit.
In order to make or present them, I don’t have to be particularly beholden to anyone.