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  The following series was featured in "Help Your Self" a group exhibition at the Helen Pitt Gallery.

Read a review of the work by Clint Burnham

Plans: Affirmations explores painting as a plan for physical events. The work, a series of car portraits in Humbrol paint on copper plate, proposes an alternative to common public actions - writing affirmations in place of expletives onto dirty cars.
       
   
 

I accept the shifting senses of ugliness

 

 

I can rid myself of the despair that makes me careless


   
 

It will be OK


 

I must risk feeling


   
 

I will not destroy others


 

I must sometimes look like an idiot


   
 

I value sincerity above cleverness


 

I will create a routine and stick to it


   
 

I will see through the tricks I am pulling on myself


  To disbelieve is necessary