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Mark Jason Kemp
A collection of works that explore my thoughts, fears, failures and regrets.
My addictions, paranoia, psychosis, and the death of my best
friend through drugs, who's life i failed to save.
in essence it's ten years overdue, the above conditions
being mostly to blame, that and losing the use of my right arm.
However, i have now, overcome most of the above and have
found a new art style to embrace, whilst re-adjusting myself to be solely left-handed.
the work was done in fine pastel pencils, charcoal and collage, on a very small scale.
They were then manipulated and reworked into time lapse stills mostly in a poloroid type
format using my new best friend, the computer.
This process I find, not only fuses both the traditional and the modern, but it allows me to
take-apart and re-assemble a piece of work, giving it a beginning and an end by adding
time, movement and consequence into the mix. What's left at the end is a brief hint, of a
VERY personal short story, that still remains vague enough, as to be interpretated differently
by most who see it. Some will see their own lives mirrored in my work and some will not.
Some might recognize a lifestyle they chose not to choose or they escaped from
and some might see a glimpse into the future and what might come to pass.
My best friend definitely saw and knew his future but was un-enable to prevent it and although
i saved myself, i ultimately let him die.
mark jason kemp 07.
A collection of works that explore my thoughts, fears, failures and regrets.
My addictions, paranoia, psychosis, and the death of my best
friend through drugs, who's life i failed to save.
in essence it's ten years overdue, the above conditions
being mostly to blame, that and losing the use of my right arm.
However, i have now, overcome most of the above and have
found a new art style to embrace, whilst re-adjusting myself to be solely left-handed.
the work was done in fine pastel pencils, charcoal and collage, on a very small scale.
They were then manipulated and reworked into time lapse stills mostly in a poloroid type
format using my new best friend, the computer.
This process I find, not only fuses both the traditional and the modern, but it allows me to
take-apart and re-assemble a piece of work, giving it a beginning and an end by adding
time, movement and consequence into the mix. What's left at the end is a brief hint, of a
VERY personal short story, that still remains vague enough, as to be interpretated differently
by most who see it. Some will see their own lives mirrored in my work and some will not.
Some might recognize a lifestyle they chose not to choose or they escaped from
and some might see a glimpse into the future and what might come to pass.
My best friend definitely saw and knew his future but was un-enable to prevent it and although
i saved myself, i ultimately let him die.
mark jason kemp 07.
