"Stepping on cracks. An innocent action subject to ancient superstition, afermentation of fear, a stirrer of societal anxiety – along with spilt salt, ladders,umbrellas, hearses and the rest. But in this concrete jungle of a world in which we live – streets smothered in asphalt, asbestos served up for breakfast, cement mixers striking mindless, monotonous chords in our hearts – why should passing unavoidably along a pavement, of all things, be yet another harbinger of bad luck?
I took to my studio for six weeks to investigate this injustice, to paint a picture of
what crack stepping means to the man on the street. It's the story of a simple human
dancing with destiny, ambushed by ambiguity, and what happens at that precise
moment he steps over the crack where his ill luck lies waiting. Superstitions, omens,
prophecies, pavements: this is where my brain has been lurking, and the mind-matter
that brought this creation to life."
Special Edition
5 Colour screen print, with spot varnish and diamond dust on Fabriano smooth. Printed using using oil-based archival inks.
Size 1:: 50 x 70cm
Size 2: 70 x 100cm
Edition: /10
Year: 2016
Authenticity: Signed and numbered by artist, authenticated by save the youth
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