Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.
Bob Dylan Chronicles vol 1 2004 p121
Where do my ideas come from?
This website comprises fifty six pages of
images, text, audio & video
documenting my work from 1970 to 2022.
Illustrated buttons (below) connect to images of the work.
Descriptive text buttons link to information about the work.
Magenta text links to pages about people, places and processes
that may be of interest.
Bob Dylan Chronicles vol 1 2004 p121
Where do my ideas come from?
This website comprises fifty six pages of
images, text, audio & video
documenting my work from 1970 to 2022.
Illustrated buttons (below) connect to images of the work.
Descriptive text buttons link to information about the work.
Magenta text links to pages about people, places and processes
that may be of interest.
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But first, why the image at the top of this page?
London's Hackney Archives contains a copy of the Clarnico sweet factory Specialties List (1906) that includes a photograph of the box-making department where my great grandfather, John Maycock (circled), is seen wearing a bow tie and standing near the back of the workshop. Finding this publication coincided with my work's focus at the time: my ancestors' occupations and the materials they used - fabric, slate, wood, etc.
In the introduction to the Specialties List is this sentence:
"We think it probable that the conditions under which our sweets are made may be of interest to our friends and have embraced this opportunity to include some illustrations of our manufacturing departments".
Clarnico's contextualization of process and product encouraged me to follow their lead when planning this website ergo:
I think it possible that the conditions under which my work is made may be of interest so have included information about how and why each series of works developed, and where finished products were exhibited.
In the introduction to the Specialties List is this sentence:
"We think it probable that the conditions under which our sweets are made may be of interest to our friends and have embraced this opportunity to include some illustrations of our manufacturing departments".
Clarnico's contextualization of process and product encouraged me to follow their lead when planning this website ergo:
I think it possible that the conditions under which my work is made may be of interest so have included information about how and why each series of works developed, and where finished products were exhibited.
I update the website regularly and welcome
questions and comments.
But first...
Below 'tangled up in blue', one of just three pieces made in 2022. It illustrates my intention to spend more time playing guitar, a byproduct of which is that I have been unable to resist visualising guitars grouped to generate interesting negative spaces.
questions and comments.
But first...
Below 'tangled up in blue', one of just three pieces made in 2022. It illustrates my intention to spend more time playing guitar, a byproduct of which is that I have been unable to resist visualising guitars grouped to generate interesting negative spaces.
If you have questions about any aspect of the work...
bryan maycock 2013 ©