Page 26 - Studio International - September 1967

Left: Beach girl, atomic victim August 1966
fibre glass, hair etc., polyurethane finish, life size.

Below: Woman and tulip 1964
pencil and coloured pencils, 22 x 15 in.

Courtesy: Robert Fraser

I am interested in upheavals, displacement and like an ever increasing, vibrating agony pain.
transference of emotion. Spiritual osmosis of sensation, Art to me is a parasite. All the greatest art is firmly
thought, love or aggressive drives into new behaviour. attached to and reflective of all the great religious,
The play on this spiritual osmosis in industrialized political or scientific developments (or misemployment
society or in wartime. of development).
Suppression of love, sexual force or whatever and its Like the parasite sucker fish beneath the shark. It must
new (sometimes unconscious) emergence into new travel with the shark in order to exist. Swimming on its
forms. Be it furniture or car design, new art or love. own it becomes nothing.
People starved of their natural environments. Adjust- Art must continually mirror something outside itself
ing to new environments and situations. to have standards.
[Soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front had been Sensual body in the photograph I have of 1st world war
starved of mental food for so long that the sight of a pinup. High nippled, firm breasts. Only the photo is
butterfly made him utterly forget his situation, resulting real now. In time our records become us. Like being
in death from sniperfire (The butterfly became deadlier left holding the high tide mark on the sand after the
than the enemy)]. tide has gone out.
How people have adjusted to the raw truth of the {noise
thought of atomic warfare. The new culture incorpora- Effects of continual travel
on society and art.
tes the crisis into its new behaviour patterns. the clock
Development of the aeroplane as a weapon affects me war, etc.