Rakes Progress
Rakes Progress

plate 20cmx30cm

A deconstruction of William Hogarth’s ‘A Rakes Progress’. and ‘A Harlots Progress’. Using the original Hogarth engravings and taking them through a process of editing and reconstruction; creating new pictorial spaces these were then made into over 70 copper plate etchings. Hogarth’s original themes of self and societal destruction become absorbed within the imagery; by removing narrative and its moral commentary I wanted them to be a distillation of entropic forces.

whorebadfoot.jpg
potheadchange.jpg
rake pile.jpg
curtainface.jpg
th fly changed.jpg
misers tomb.jpg
birdman.jpg
hammerlass.jpg
house of cards.jpg
oboedestroy.jpg
tophatdoodle.jpg
candle eyes.jpg
bad marriage pile.jpg
flowers.jpg
legsyeh.jpg
scaffold.jpg
chick.jpg
wormy.jpg
bird worm.jpg
digital window.jpg
digital legs.jpg
daft.jpg
stretch face.jpg
roomface for web.jpg
litter room.jpg
silly headed whore.jpg
smash glass.jpg
pyramid head.jpg
cup balance.jpg
pods.jpg
hungchairlandscape.jpg
digital love bad.jpg
bucket head.jpg
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prisonkid.jpg
boohoo.jpg
Untitled-1.jpg
butterfly cards.jpg
insanity.jpg
bothends.jpg
bigflyman.jpg
falling cards.jpg
candle balqnce.jpg
goldfish.jpg
chair.jpg
pile with arch.jpg
skydoor.jpg
destruction top hat.jpg
trump tower.jpg
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rakeA3web.jpg
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prop.jpg
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reject7.jpg
reject11.jpg
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Rakes Progress
whorebadfoot.jpg
potheadchange.jpg
rake pile.jpg
curtainface.jpg
th fly changed.jpg
misers tomb.jpg
birdman.jpg
hammerlass.jpg
house of cards.jpg
oboedestroy.jpg
tophatdoodle.jpg
candle eyes.jpg
bad marriage pile.jpg
flowers.jpg
legsyeh.jpg
scaffold.jpg
chick.jpg
wormy.jpg
bird worm.jpg
digital window.jpg
digital legs.jpg
daft.jpg
stretch face.jpg
roomface for web.jpg
litter room.jpg
silly headed whore.jpg
smash glass.jpg
pyramid head.jpg
cup balance.jpg
pods.jpg
hungchairlandscape.jpg
digital love bad.jpg
bucket head.jpg
_DSC0169.JPG
prisonkid.jpg
boohoo.jpg
Untitled-1.jpg
butterfly cards.jpg
insanity.jpg
bothends.jpg
bigflyman.jpg
falling cards.jpg
candle balqnce.jpg
goldfish.jpg
chair.jpg
pile with arch.jpg
skydoor.jpg
destruction top hat.jpg
trump tower.jpg
P1800451.JPG
P1800466.JPG
IMG-5200.JPG
IMG-5201.JPG
P1800449.JPG
IMG-4170.JPG
IMG-4044.jpg
_DSC0156.JPG
IMG-4051.jpg
IMG-4048.JPG
IMG-4052.JPG
rakeA3web.jpg
IMG-4049.PNG
prop.jpg
recject8.jpg
reject1.jpg
reject2.jpg
reject3.jpg
reject4.jpg
reject5.jpg
reject7.jpg
reject11.jpg
reject12.jpg
reject13.jpg
reject14.jpg
reject15.jpg
reject17.jpg
reject21.jpg
reject22.jpg
reject24.jpg
reject25.jpg
reject26.jpg
reject28.jpg
IMG-5187.JPG
IMG-5188.JPG
IMG-5190.jpg
Rakes Progress

plate 20cmx30cm

A deconstruction of William Hogarth’s ‘A Rakes Progress’. and ‘A Harlots Progress’. Using the original Hogarth engravings and taking them through a process of editing and reconstruction; creating new pictorial spaces these were then made into over 70 copper plate etchings. Hogarth’s original themes of self and societal destruction become absorbed within the imagery; by removing narrative and its moral commentary I wanted them to be a distillation of entropic forces.

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