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About Me:

I am...
48073.
The number was born online, december 2002.

It is the number I find hardest to remember.

About My Art:

About my artwork
Way back in 2000 I started an online art project, communicating to the world by creating and showing online one new painting each day, for the rest of my life. Soon after the start I was hacked, unable to continue my online presence...
Two years later I was reborn under another name. As an artist I now live as brand 48073™ in RL, on my computer and on the web.
The number was born on the web, december 2002. It is the number I find hardest to remember.

I started making solid paintings in 1990. I saw and cut them into pieces, rearranging them and re-assemble them into new images. Pictures taken from these paintings are then re-combined and transformed using a computer.
From that moment on the painting lives a virtual life, the 'original' becomes redundant to the point that it does not even matter if the original still exists.
The painting lives as part of the digital world, somehow becoming more “real” this way, like I feel more “real” being a number.

About Panting
I start from a zero mentally, intuitive, without a preconceived plan. I want the thing to make itself, all by its self. The fact is is that the image comes to life in an incidental, casual way. Working from a seemingly careless attitude is a way to quiet down the desire, the Ego. Before I act I wait, until the will flows back again. I keep repeating this, I continue to block the urge to act. Until, unnoticed, something has happened. Suddenly I find myself at work. As soon as i fully realize this moment i stop, wait, let the whole process start all over again.

I try to defeat the painting in all possible ways, destroying it, sawing it apart, cutting it with a knife or scissors. The debris is then nailed, glued, sewn together, transformed into new images. This whole thing is organic, including the format, which can grow or shrink during the process.
I keep working on a painting until I can no longer judge it. Until I have lost grip on the result. Until it no longer needs me and starts living its own life in the world.

I do not want to create beauty. I want the image pushed to the other side, over the edge, until it falls together in a fragile harmony, hanging between thin threads, like a wounded butterfly caught in the web of the conscious.

I do not want to create an alternative reality. This is simply how I see the world as it really is.

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At 1:17pm on October 22, 2009, Luke Gilliam said…: Yes you were quite an influence for me when I was working in small studio in Oldfield Park what seems 2 years ago now. The online world is small and yet you have gained some huge coverage. I can't for the life of me figure out how you make those swooping curves on the first 10 slide show images - Bravo! Best, L ::==)

At 9:33pm on October 21, 2009, Luke Gilliam said…: Hi there 48073. It's great to see you up here and see the proliferation of your work. I love your piece 07103 day019. Hope ur doin' well - my best regards from L ::==)

At 5:50am on June 19, 2009, Thomas Hodges said…: Thanks, I find your work very inspired and original, many congrats !

At 12:38pm on June 4, 2009, Philip Letts said…: Thx for your comment about the shop and we look forward to you being a part of it - your art is cool.

At 6:44am on May 25, 2009, Lewis Evans said…: Nu surprise at all! Nice to meet you.

Reading through your profile is really interesting. I think in much the same way, although I doubt that it is so apparent in some of the more representational work.

At 1:42am on April 30, 2009, CLAUDIE BASTIDE said…: So do I; we both appear on the opening page.
You know I like that group,it remains of human size for the moment.

At 2:36pm on April 29, 2009, Philip Letts said…: You just got artwork of the week here at b-uncut. See home page. It will be up for two weeks so you can show others. Congratulations.

At 10:29am on March 14, 2009, Lavinia Young said…: Hey back, cool work xx

At 11:19am on March 12, 2009, Lavinia Young said…: Hi there

nice to see you.
Lavinia x

At 3:26am on March 12, 2009, Philip Letts said…: 48073, welcome to b-uncut - the social network for artists by artists. We look forward to seeing you load more and rate artworks, post blogs, join Forum discussions and more. Read the 'Notes' (right column - home page) for tips on using the site.

Dive in and enjoy.

And don't let anything stop you expressing your art.