| I
began cutting up texts in
1994 as painting wasn't enough for me, six arms and ten legs churning,
pick-axe
slung over my shoulder, in an effort to get a hands on approach to
poetry.
Having long known the difference between theft and restoration - you
find one,
you find them both. I've always seen it as sampling, a literal mash
up. I
worked with the now defunct Beta Band on two album tours around
the U.K as
the warm up act reading the cut-ups i'd made. Getting applause in one
corner,
boos and hisses in the other and taking potshots from the wings. It
felt good!
I have travelled widely; U.S.A, Mexico, Thailand, India, Nepal, West
Africa,
Northern and Southern Europe and have lived in France, Russia and
Ghana.
Currently living in Denmark. I've done the run of menial jobs and am
still
doing them. I bounce between painting and writing; one
feeding the
other. |