B Movie (In Progress)

A cinematic squaring up of the creative process that begins with the prompt: But why make art? What is the creative force?

An ongoing collection that began in lockdown under a hermetic deep dive into movie and documentary film watching, which like much of my work begins with the act of collecting and no particular intent. Gradually a pattern of thought and purpose is emerging.

The square cropping of cinema’s wide rectangle becomes an intentional visual/wordplay reference to (the creative) struggle. I play with notions of stillness and motion (picture) in my attempt to express the ineffable and metaphoric subtext. Read alone or seen as linear narrative, these re-contextualized stills capture the dynamic internal push and pull of underwhelm, overwork and occasional success of ideas and artwork within the creative mind. Like a tongue-in-cheek meditative manifesto: B the Movie.