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This image forms part of the WSPB's Gallery of Members' Art Work.
"False Start"
pixels on computer screen
28 March 1996
Unlimited edition
Artist's statement
'This piece began life as a reconstructed film still from the second reel of A. J.
Hitchock's "The Birds". At one time it featured the word 'menace' along the bottom.
Cancellation marks were soon added - another form of 'menace' - but against my intentions the work quickly came to resemble a frontispiece to Darwin's "Origins of the Species"
or the business card of someone with a phobia of parrots. In short, the piece
went disastrously wrong. Since the WSPB's mission statement allows artwork to be boring I
decided to lodge this 'False Start' before deleting it from my computer. I hope
to lodge a more successful work in the near future.'
The WSPB welcomes your comments on this picture. Send e-mail to our archivist, Paul Melia, marking e-mail 'FALSE criticism'.