Looking at photos of houses that were once my home I noticed a common theme. The commonality might be about the London Building vernacular. But I’m beginning to think 🤔 more about my home style choices and preferences and how that is expressed in my artwork and making.
Missing is our houses in Ladbroke Grove as they got demolished to create council estates. A lot of my family stayed in Notting Hil. Still there today.
Looking at those photos I certainly can see a theme of old classic building aesthetics. Interestingly my Manchester purchase, a whole house, looked very different from the outside because of the red Accrington brick.
The Victorian and arts and craft style still continued. After pulling out another fireplace and decorating with a mantra for preserving its heritage I started to check myself and ask why. What have I got to do with victoriana?
So now my current home is starkly different from everything else because the ultra modern look of the apartment block.
So in essence from these ponderings 🤔 I realised how my style preferences relate to deconstructing historic and cultural themes and amplifying the contemporary vernacular in context from the position of experiencing the cultural transitions. The transitional stance means my work might nod to and contain contrasting and dynamic elements though not always pointing to the critical focal point.
