“Graze the paper with the soul’s foot, and the foot immediately slips.” Helene Cixous, Stigmata.

Addis Ababa

“We may start out from Marx’s famous saying about history occurring fist as authentic event and then being repeated as farce. In this way, we may see modernity as the initial adventure of the European West, then as an immense farce repeating itself on a planetary scale, in all those latitudes to which Western religious, technical, economic and political values have been exported. This ‘carnivalization’ passes through the stages of evangelization, colonization, decolonization and globalization, which themselves are historic. What is less visible is that this hegemony, this ascendancy on the art of the global order, whose models seem irresistible….. is accompanied by an extraordinary process of reversion, in which power is slowly undermined, devoured or “cannibalized’ by the very people it ‘carnivalizes’…….it is this dual – carnivalesque and cannibalistic – form we see reflected in every corner of the world…” Jean Baudrillard, Carnival and Cannibal, Edtions de l’Herne 2008

Open Studios Cornwall

Studio opening from 2nd – 10th June 2012. You are invited. See Open Studios Cornwall 2012 for location/details.