Mr Average

Mr Average

Featured in RB group “UK Visions” Sept 09

Art from the world of lawns and offices.

Artists have always used the materials of their time.. they forged iron and steel. Today many people live and work surrounded by office machinery and it seems right to bring these into the artistic process… as some are already doing. Photocopier poem

I like to take a drawing and play about with it.. in this case I put a simple pencil sketch it through a low cost copier ! I like the grainy feel the copier gives this. The original is a pencil drawing and quite delicate this feels quite different. For me this feels a bit like a Warhol… because the FAX process roughens and de-personalises the image.

I would put the Mona Lisa through a copier just to see what comes out at the other end.

I like the idea that I could FAX this to anyone anywhere and they would receive an original FAXED version. So if you talk to me nicely I might be persuaded to FAX you a copy of this work ! The original FAXED work was on that thin fax paper that darkens with age.. and so it will not last very long.. so in effect this image only now exists on my hard drive and on sites like this. So anyone ordering the online version is getting the nearest thing anyone can get to an original.

Ok.. I’ll keep taking the pills. ;)

Mr Average belongs to the following groups:

Finks of Inks, Friends of RedBubble, ImageWriting (2/24), Raw Art, Shameless Self-Promotion and Solo Exhibition Available for sale as

Greeting Cards and Matted Prints