Most evenings before heading to bed I find myself in the studio. I sit and contemplate what is presented and I find myself playing and piecing things together.
Tonight I think I have the beginnings of a self portrait
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Brain, eye hand coordination = problems
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When I was a child I was was diagnosed with this along with dyslexia. My parents were told that it was rather bad and that I would not amount to much in life.
Funny how this has stuck with me and made me strive for what I want. It’s not easy as it effects my confidence in many ways and some days I feel absolutely wretched, but each day I always push that little bit further.
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The plaster teeth are a cast of my bottom set of teeth. The body is a scan of mine, the brain is from an open source print. The expanding foam was found in a skip along with the stand.
The plaster cast of the cog is from a cog I found in the street .
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The Art and musings of Jeffrey Knopf 