Altered States of Agoraphobia: AUBADE Magazine Issue 3

Monday, April 25, 2011

AUBADE Magazine Issue 3

The latest issue of AUBADE magazine has now been published and contains another fabulous collection of photographs, artworks and writing from artists across the world. Issue 3 also includes a recent image of my own, made on the road to Dodge City earlier this month. Many thanks to Christopher Turner for his passion, vision and hard work on what looks to be another great journal.

AUBADE Issue 3 can be previewed and purchased from Magcloud here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/187338

"Aubade Magazine Issue 3 is a kalaidoscope of work-a-day artistic topography - writing by cult US writer James Brown, photography by David Solomons, Dave Mason, Andy Brown and Simon Kossoff, Robert Saucier amongst luminous others, art by Mayako Nakamura, poetry by Didi S Gilson...Oh, and some unidentified objects sketched by a fearful public and sent to the ministry of defense."

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Welcome

About the photographs: These images are a search for a personal orientation between the dream or idea of a place and my actual experience of it in reality. They can be described as a collection of psychic coordinate points which I have plotted between the imagined America I brought with me from England and the real America I found on my arrival in 2008. These images are half truth and half fiction. They are a psychogeography, filled with personal symbolism and tangled with influences so old they were already part of me long before this journey ever began.

A note about the title:  The compulsion to travel, to move from one place to another, has been with me my whole life. Whether it be local, national or international, I have always found myself either in motion or, if not, I have been dreaming about it. Paradoxically, it has been in the periods of dreaming that Agoraphobia, (which Google defines as “Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult”) has gripped me and, at times, crippled me. These photographs are my continued (once secret) revolt against it in the United States of America today, despite recent quarantines.