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COCKAIGNE

Cockaigne takes its name from the Medieval daydreaming of those who lived lives of toil or squalor, enduring the cess, disease, mortality and strict religious life prescribed to them. But through their collective fantasy Cockaigne came to be. There where many ways to get there, a favourite being to dig a hole, fill it with manure and immerse oneself up to the neck and be transported. This world is opposite, where work and struggle are replaced with excess and rest. Desire and fantasy becomes manifest and it is virtuous to indulge rather than abstain. Roast beasts run up to you with knives already in their backs pleading to be eaten. Through this shrine to this paradise, you may glimpse existence in Cockaigne. Documentation from the solo show Cockaigne at Firstdraft Gallery in 2019



Cockaigne
Oil on panel, 2019


Installation view of Cockaigne, 2019


The Ass, Carrying An Image
Oil and acrylic on panel with hinges and diamontes on plastic plum, 2019


Your Palace Is Your Flesh, Inhabited By Shames
oil and spray paint on panel with polymer clay, 2019


Your Countenance Is Altered, And Is Bright And Glistening
Oil and candle wax on panel, 2019


Your Countenance Is Altered, And Is Bright And Glistening (detail)


Your Countenance Is Altered, And Is Bright And Glistening (detail)


Your Countenance Is Altered, And Is Bright And Glistening (detail)