The paintings vary in the way the paint is applied, ranging from intricate and finely detailed, to more abstract work. By applying this variety of style and technique, the works highlight the overlooked, and challenge the accepted status of the commonplace. The works collectively offer a critique of the historical hierarchy of painting.
My work references the �rude mechanicals� from Shakespeare�s A Midsummer Night�s Dream, whose tools define their trade and status. The term �rude� was associated with the material, as something placed at the bottom of a hierarchy, to be governed or ruled. Order, or hierarchy is constantly challenged and subverted by the mechanicals.
Drawing on the distinction between �megalography� and �rhopography�, the depiction of things great and trivial, my work explores the overlooked, and challenges the accepted status of the commonplace. The works delight in the importance of the trivial over the human impulse to create greatness.
