portrait of the artist as a young man...

economically challenged young man poses as artist in reflection

 of economically challenged piece of art...

early man flee's economic woe's and a small fire...

call me jimmy rabbit....or not that up to you really..

or not... not sure why im here any more.. the 80s have arrived..

welcome back to the 80's.. any one fancy starting a working class blues's band called "The Commitments", Jesus these long titles are killing me...

Government sponsored artist draws the dole

Yes it is word play

growing a beard for the rds

it does seem timely that as i continue to grow my beard the rds awards approach am i preparing for something, or is it that my dole hasn't come through yet and i can't afford razors,

just back from belfast today, which is good..

bought the guardian though, which is good

the woman in the internet cafe made me pay in advance,
im thinking it could be the beard, which is not so good

life without out a camera, not so good,

altough there was that blind photographer guy, he really couldn't have been very good at all.

at an end...

MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES

strictly artists...

yes artists are elitist snobs, cant even go for a drink in your local bar and they are taking up the space..im only curious as to who they are expecting after 9pm??

missing presumed blue....

local artist opens show in trinity college, local college bans artist from use of trees for unspecified period of time, local artist uses local college to get pissed and decides what the hell, sure the rain forest is fucked anyway....

Tueaaaaasdays exhibition......

well were not all perfect.. we make mistakes.. but i finish college today, so all i can say is see you tueaaasday...

Critical(mass)Evaluation.....

Over the course of the last four years we set out to define ourselves as photographers, image makers or visual artists. Yet in certainty we can only say that we are photographers and as such we are defined by our use of the camera. It is with this position in mind that perhaps i can communicate something of my understanding of what it is to study photography and in my case to be a photographer who values ideas over execution. I began over five years ago now, pursuing a notion of what it was going to be to be a photographer. In the pursuit of this idea, I have been lead through many regions of understanding as to what it is to be a photographer, be it commercial, land art, reclaimed photographic imagery or any other use of the photographic medium. And I stand now looking back to these beginnings and i can say just this. 'So far i have come, but I still haven’t left.'

The beginning of understanding is rooted in our ability to refuse. With photography there is no margin of refusal, no space to breath. What I am getting to here is that as a photographer I learn to make photographs, and as such I am a photographer. Yet to go beyond this means a certain level of foresight to see the folly of representation. The inability to distinguish between many truths is human; the ability to fix a truth is photography. With this explanation of my position as a photographer, Maybe now we can go on to understand why the images I create are no more final or finished than the maker of them.