Lilliputian partially desimated town

Christmas card 2016

This years Christmas card is a circle that spins out of the card to slowly obliterate the face. The image on the circle is cut from a black and white photo of the scene of bombing in Aleppo, Syria.

4x4 eclipsing black hole

A continuation of the idea that lilliputian buildings can be created that can be viewed from above as if you are travelling above them in a plane. A million little buildings that are destroyed every day.

Syrian Triptych

These three sculptures were made as part os the Syria series a few months ago. I am still working on building up a large bank of small sculptures which when exhibited together can form a small town or city from above.

Fallen House

4X4 sloping roofs

war (buildings)

                                       

The sculptures are part of a larger scale version which is being made up out of lots of small buildings. These are made using cut up photos from war zones. Most of them are of deserted and wrecked towns which have been bombed. The eventual sculpture will hopefully be made up of lots of buildings which can then be arranged on the floor to be walked through like a lilliputlian scene of desolation.

Syria Film (The Sky is Falling)

This is a collaborative between Dave Stephens and Will Stephens which was made in response to a photo that was sent to Will by a Syrian Refugee who he met in Berlin.

The project started out as a series of sculptures by Dave Stephens which then inspired this film, created by Will (with creative guidance from Dave), using Cinema 4D.

4 x 4 Syria

My son was visiting Berlin and met a Syrian guy who he got chatting to. The Syrian was a refugee and talked a lot about the situation in Syria and how difficult it was living in a war torn country. When my son got back to England the guy sent him a picture of his town and said that the building in the centre was actually the house where he used to live. I was quite amazed by the way that some people have to come to terms with appalling conditions in their lives but also that we just take it for granted that it is quite normal to encounter these things on the internet or through television. Its the strangeness of watching the news whilst eating your dinner.

I have recently been working on a series of sculptures that are all based on building that are half demolished through such things as war. It seemed right to use the photo that my son had been sent as part of one of these sculptures. I will probably make it part of a series of 4.

Fossil (4x4).

In recent months I have been making small sculptures that are based on the grid system on a cutting mat. I am tending to keep them in sets of 4 with each one using the same picture. The small cubic individual structures tends to look like a building that is opened up to the outside. This is because each one was influenced by a newspaper picture that I saw of a set of buildings in a war zone that had been bombed and shelled so that parts of their structure were missing. The rock in the centre contains the fossil of what looks like a leaf which I found on a beach in Dorset. The photos are of leaves and ornaments from a Christmas tree.