Salary Man
06/11/2019 Approx. 3m x 2m
Originally Acrylic and emulsion paint on lining paper
The text at the top is from the Britney Spears song Hit Me Baby One More Time which I imagined could be a plea for the second coming of Christ. The rectangles represent the migrants killed in the Essex lorry people smuggling tragedy which happened three days before this work
It is called Salary Man because in the BCU college group crit someone said it was of a man who could not or would not go home to see his family
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Salary Man - work stages
Work at Birmingham College of Art - BCU
By the time I had worked through to the fourth image ( bottom right) I had ruined it. So the photograph I use as the final piece is the bottom left image. I have retouched this in Photoshop to delete the paint tins and the dog.