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I've been thinking about what you have written about your working practise, about how your paintings are a series of destructions, this is meaning that there is a starting image (photo, historical painting etc) and how your work is about breaking down this image in order to pick out particular parts, enhancing these sections in order to create new meaning (I could splurt out a whole load of verbose chatter about sign and signifier here but i won't).
I am thinking that my own work is about a series of additions onto already semi realised paintings. The photo which is the seed where an idea germinates becomes very quickly, very distant and the aim becomes to build on the created painting a new painting. Building up layers of history that slowly, through the sedementation of truths and semi-truths, into the realm of a new-old mythology.
As for your new works, well i think that it could potentially lead to somewhere very interesting, as for whether the staining that you've done on them makes a significant difference, it does give the impression of something trapped in time, however, i find that side of them slightly obvious. What i think is more exciting are these works of obliterating newspaper images. i've spoken as much as i can about this previously, the challenge for you is how you can translate this to more significant. i think you need to expand upon the single photo image, perhaps starting by collaging a couple of photos together, and responding by oblitering these. i think this could then start to make them mean something more significant.