About This Project

Well, the canvas may be square but, to use 1960’s vernacular, this ain’t ‘Square!’
It’s an uncompromising, unconventional work inspired by a simple desire to use a solid black background.
So, I had to give it a go. And this is what happened.
Once I’d started, typically, I kept changing my choice of images. I’d either add or abandon stuff never really knowing where the whole thing would end up.
The one thing I hadn’t anticipated was Me!
In the days before camera-phones humans would capture images of other humans with single-lens cameras and the local chemist shop would print the photos in black and white.
This is Me captured back in North Wales, where I was born. I guess I’d be 3 or so. And including this photo aroused another flash of creativity – I know I’ll set it alight!
There’s no hidden meaning lurking beneath the surface, I just relished the challenge of painting flames.
It was always my intention that this canvas would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. And I hope I’ve succeeded.
At least it challenges norms and stares orthodoxy in the face!
My title is borrowed from a tune sung in a Disney animation and live-action motion picture made before I was born.