From the pages of my notebooks - Ideas that got the chop.

A visual explosion. Graphic intrusion. We are everywhere and you should be worried.

A little graffiti sticker discussion piece on the manufacturing of the paranoia and fear of terrorism. Like the second world war posters that told citizens the enemy lurked everywhere I thought the image of a mushroom cloud stuck up in various places would comment on how we are told to be always vigilant.

Terrorists aren’t everywhere and this wasn’t a very clever idea but I still like the image.

I had this idea to go around labelling things and photographing them. The label would refer to their defining characteristics and would be brief. The idea came from court reports where many people would have different recollections and interpretations of a single event. We all see the world in this way, through our own internal filters which restrict our view to that with which we can reconcile everything, not necessarily filters with which we are comfortable but we twist situations to align with our understanding.

I thought it would be interesting if this were stopped by clearly defining objects and events.

I have an idea for a series of pieces that involve manufacturing 3-dimensional grid structures and ‘floating’ between their surfaces sheets of a pliable and stretchy material (a rubber sheet? Latex pressed between two boards?). These sheets would be pulled from alternate positions on both sides of this structure with diagonal pulls at the corners to anchor the work. I would envisage these pieces being large but thin in terms of the depth of the structure.

I used to live by the sea and would regularly walk on the beach. While there I picked up pieces of driftwood. I thought it would be nice to make a chess set of them. Eventually I stopped as there was no consistency in the size of the blocks and as ever I really craved order and regularity. Not to worry – I made loads of other stuff from the varied amounts of salted timber.

I had an idea about combining people. My first idea was Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Newcastle United’s Obefemi Martens combined as Chris Obefemi Martins. As nobody would know who these were from their images alone I decided to change tack.

Here is Lionel Ritchie & Tony Blair. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… Lionel Blair!