Dismembered

2007

oil on canvas

85 x 65cm

It would be a further three years after the making of Run before I made my next painting, Dismembered.

For this work, I used one of five discarded, anonymous canvases of the same size which I had brought out from the UK. While they were still in the UK, I had loosely covered all these five in an orange wash.

I remember little about the making of this work, but the composition speaks for itself: A naked, isolated, male figure, shying away from the viewer, his head filled with red, looking at sand or something similar slipping through his hands.

Later, I was showing the painting to Craig, and he enquired as to where the right leg of the figure was. I hadn’t noticed that it wasn’t there, the work had been made quickly without much thought, so the painting became known as Dismembered.