The theme of the work

The theme of this work in a sense is varied but it´s backround joining it altogether is a theme of loss and death and the transition from boyhood to manhood. It seems to me that boys don´t grow up unless they have to and maybe not even then. I began to work as I would see as an artist for a reason or from a need personally, mine from the trauma of my mothers death. When I began I didn´t know what I was doing, I was just doing and when I began that was enough just to be doing something.Putting matches together creating a texture, drawing hundreds of frames of stills to be busy and feeling satisfaction.It sounds corny but sometimes art was one of the only things that made sense to me ,that and the love of my family and the memories of my mothers love.At this time I also found inspiration and solace in graphic illustrators such as Chris Weir, Seth, Charles Burns, David Collier and numerous others, for their ability to present firstly a story so beautifully through visual imagery and combine this ten with a sometimes equally beautiful narrative. For these reasons I wanted to present a type of homage to these artists by holding a series of talks on the backround and the development of the graphic novel.Although the theme seemed intense I felt after such a long time it should not be and when you get to an age to have to accept death and if you don´t you die a little yourself every time you meet it and don´t accept it.So i wanted a kind of ´fun of the fair´ kind of a thing. So I made a set of lights to make an occasion of the show and talks.