CITY OF 1000 TEXTURES
Soho Rd, Birmingham, 1970s–1980s
Looking at how signage, display systems and everyday materials carry cultural memory through use, layering and repetition.
But, who are you?
Tings are getting reset.
1. Last time I saw a philosophy debate live
2. Black skin, White masks - Frantz Fanon
3. Frantz Fanon portrait
4. Who are you, Malcolm X - 1962
5. Screenshot ref for a painting
6. Who are you, Chipmunk - 2008
2cousins x 2uncles.
RIP uncle Docki, wish I spent more time with you.
13/14 family at a family function in Nechells.
Im jacking this colour composition for a new painting..
Oh and the photo of a photo smeared fingerprints.
Dutch pot colour system legend
A bilingual vocabulary of Caribbean and British vernacular, pulled from my Dutch pot lid etchings. Built up from a tight, restricted set of letters on the lid itself.
Each word and phrase is translated into a tonal value to form a visual dialect. Not to be read, but felt.
Language shifts into new relationships:
The same voices, just carried differently.
