No Signal
Each figure has a voice. The titles are theirs, spoken from inside the condition, not
observed from outside it. They know exactly their nihilist psychological state. "Dead
inside "
They move through spaces built for transcendence ,the cathedral, the classical arcade,
the old masters studio. They wear contemporary luxury tracksuits, gold chains -
against backdrops to accumulated human devotion and classical beauty. The collision
is deliberate. Everything civilisation ever made to elevate, is present. But it does not
touch them
“Im Beyond Thinking”
I'M BEYOND THINKING
She sits on stone in a classical arcade, columns receding behind her into warm shadow. The VR headset lies discarded at her bare feet another world tried, assessed, abandoned. Bare footed, another attempt to ground herself that also failed.
She wears mustard gold leather, baroque pearls at her throat, a jewel at her forehead -
dressed for a ceremony she has already left.
The light is warm and directional, Old Master in its quality - ornate, atmospheric. The palette moves from deep shadow at the edges to warm gold at the centre, everything converging on a figure who is looking at nothing in particular and has been for some time.
She has thought about all of it. Thought has not helped.
She is somewhere past the place. She smokes to spite herself.
I’m Beyond Thinking. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
118 cm x 84.9 cm
No Signal series, image 1 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£3,500 Standalone piece
£12,000 Complete Inert series (4 works)
“What Is Happening Me?”
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME ?
She crouches on worn stone in a classical colonnade, green leather catching the soft ambient light, bare feet on cold flags. A small dead robin lies beside her. The slingshot is
still in her hand.
The columns behind her recede into pale architectural calm, a space of order and reason and within it something entirely unreasonable has just occurred.
The palette is deep green, honied stone, soft diffused light with similar static drama of the other images. That quietness is deliberate. The composition gives her nowhere to hide and an action she can't to hide behind.
The green is not accidental. She was jealous of the robin , its' small uncomplicated life, its' instinct, its' song that asks nothing and means everything.
The bird woke this morning and simply was. It felt the air. It sang because its body told it to. No algorithm, no abundance, no expectation, no bombardment of information. No performance of feeling in a world that has too much of everything and too little of what actually matters. It was simply being.
She could not bear it. Not only what has she done - but what has she become.
What Is Happening Me?. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
118 cm x 84.9 cm
No Signal series, image 2 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£3,500 Standalone piece
£12,000 Complete Inert series (4 works)
“It's All Too Beautiful”
IT'S ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL
The tracksuit is argyle leather, its blue, red and gold, a mirror of the stained glass window he has just shattered. Around his neck, a chain of state. On his finger, a ruby. In his hand, a stone.
The destruction has made the light more beautiful. He hasn't noticed.
This is a study in absence, not of feeling withheld but of
feeling that was never available. The space demands awe,
the chain demands gravity, the ring demands presence. He is present for none of it. It's complete disconnection. He can not feel it.
Visually the work is structured around a single contradiction, the richness of everything in the frame against the emptiness of the one face that should animate it. Caravaggio light, jewelled palette, monumental Gothic architecture. And at the centre, nothing.
It’s All Too Beautiful. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
66 cm x 130 cm
No Signal series, image 3 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£3,500 Standalone piece
£12,000 Complete Inert series (4 works)
"I’m So Rich I'll Buy Another"
I'M SO RICH, I'LL BUY ANOTHER
He sits in a painter's studio weighted with history - Old Masters hang behind him, The light falls from the upper left in a single decisive shaft, catching the leather of her suit, the chrome of the spray can, the orange drips already running down the canvas.
The palette is dark and rich - burnt umber, ochre, deep shadow - the colours of the paintings he is defacing and the clothes he is wearing are the same colours.
He belongs here and he is destroying it simultaneously. He isn't raging. That is the point. The pose is relaxed, almost bored - one leg crossed, the can held loosely, a gesture of complete familiarity. Destruction at this level requires no adrenaline. He will buy another. The tragedy isn't the vandalism. It's the complete absence of the thrill of it.
I’m So Rich, I’ll Buy Another. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
66 cm x 130 cm
No Signal series, image 4 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£3,500 Standalone piece
£12,000 Complete Inert series (4 works)
The transmission is constant .- grandeur, pleasure, innocence, simply not received.
They are present, intelligent, entirely self-aware.
The treatment is painterly and precise. Light falls the way it falls in Caravaggio -
directional, loaded, unambiguous. The palette is rich but controlled. These are not
snapshots. They are portraits in the oldest sense - made to hold a person still long
enough to be truly seenThey speak clearly from inside the silence.
