Bookmark: thing used to mark place in a work or text.
Two tribes is an work that is carrying on a process that I use in a particlar manifestation of my work.
While travelling through Europe in 1990, I became a little frustrated.
While spending a great deal of my time visiting galleries and taking in the exhibitions available, I was not physically doing any work myself.
Looking through postcards to mail home, I conceived the idea of using postcards of other artists work as small canvasses to rework and make my own small,cheap and visually effective, light hand luggage.
The work that I had put together at this time has not be exhibited as a show, so when I was approached for Hand Luggage these pieces came to mind.

As an image maker, I take accepted Visual Language and
present it in a context which is questionable to the viewer.
The Images themselves have no intrinsic value, and no
message in their own right, other than to offer the viewer a spectrum of alternatives by which they may be viewed.

To choose among these alternatives, or to judge what they might be, becomes an experience of imaginative self discovery.

I personally view my work as a pictorial form of short social poetry, like the Japanese Senryu or Haiku, sometimes humorous,sometimes serious. 

All the arts live by words. Each work of art demands its response; and the urge that drives man to create like the creations that result from this strange instinct is inseparable from a form of literature whether written or not, whether immediate or premeditated.
May not the prime motive of any work be the wish to give rise to discussion,if only between the mind and itself?