When I was a little kid and heard adults mention "illuminated manuscripts", I visualized an enormous dark archive, reminiscent of cathedrals and the basement vaults of libraries, full of rich images that were softly glowing. I was disappointed to discover that it just meant books with weird little pictures in the margins, however intriguing those books might be. Still, decades later, when someone mentions illuminated manuscripts, the first image that comes to mind is my childhood vision and I have to consciously remember that it's illustrated texts, always with a sense of disappointment.
Flight and Pursuit is the adult creation of my childhood vision. I have combined work from my adult artistic practice and interests with the fairy tales, myths and dreams of childhood to create the imagery. It is an adult narrative of my flight from and pursuit of technology; my love/hate relationship with computers, motorcycles, microwaves, compound bows, my hearing aids, clocks...the entire paraphenalia of technological apparatus. Combined with pre-Internet childhood imagery, it becomes an expression of my flight through, and pursuit of, time and memory.