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“Salvador Dali’s Persisting Memory of Agadir”
Reinterpretation of Salvador Dali’s 1931 “The Persistence of Memory”. Updated symbolism includes:
- Dreamscape with an unnaturally bright horizon, suggesting global warming
- Locust on the melting smartphone, heralding the end of the world, and the all pervasive smartphone, our ever increasing dependance on an ever advancing technology, particularly AI
- Cockroach on the SmartWatch, is life without dignity
Other Images
“Stripes”
Zebra shot in Namibia, did well in competition
“The Unavoidable Face of Capitalism”
Inspired by Herbert Bayer’s 1931 “Lonely Metropolitan”, but with a different message. The shaking background implies a level of uncertainty/ instability
“Awaiting Her Lover”
Pensive monochrome
“Omani Seascape”
A nod to Hiroshi Sugimoto but more positive and an ICM rather than long exposure
“Three Dogs on a Beach”
I like the extreme negative space and the subtle technicalities surrounding the dogs
“Sand Abstract”
This is a proper abstract, that I think works quite well
“Green Blue Abstract”
A double abstract employing the idea of a portal as:
- a door to the unconscious for the surrealists
- an altered state
- or alternative reality
“Fantasy Lovers”
The couple’s shadow is transformed is transformed into hole in the wall and perhaps fantasy world beyond
“Paris Brosnan Vandelises a Parked Car”
The “Car Art” was performed at the opening night of Paris Brosnan’s show at the Clarendon Gallery in Mayfair, London on the 26th February. I was walking past, with my camera in my bag, after having attended an event at another gallery just around the corner. Totally opportunist
New Artists
3rd February: “Hieronymous Bosch” particularly with regard to his influence on Salvador Dali
4th January: Vasily Kandinsky recommended as the key person to study, alongside Clement Greenberg, to understand more about abstract art
5th December: Ben Nicholson – English Surrealist and abstract painter at the time of Henry Moore, Paul Nash, et al.
Notes:
- Autumn 2025
- December 2025
- January 2026
- February 2026
- Summer 2026