Bloc

The urban environment has always interested me and in later work whole series have been dedicated to solely that theme. In this collage a woodcut featuring a soulless town square with a gimpy Henry Moore like statue was cut up to and used to form the architectural background to a faceless figure who is showing signs of falling apart.

The grid paper and the title with its eastern bloc connotations underlines the theme. It is also a subtle reference to the collapse of the Berlin Wall which monopolised television and newspaper reports of the time.