TRAPS:


an extensive project involving poetry, drawing, painting, talking, performing

 

Eclipse trap, 1997, oil on canvas

 

Clockwise from top left: (1) Trap Study (bird cages); (2) Museum show case with Trap Studies and museum’s collection of traps, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, 1993, photograph by Paige Mitchell; (3) Trap Study (observation spectra and fence); (4) Trap Study (birdcage and graph).


Left to right, Rodent Traps 1 & 2, Rodent Traps 3 & 4.

 

Tree Trap.

Meditation Trap Studies 4

from Stroll & Strut Step

Clockwise left to right: Study for Light Trap;

Crow Trap Study 1 using photographs by Paige Mitchell;

Lobster traps, photograph Allen Fisher, Hastings.

Meditation Trap Studies 1: II & IV

Meditation Trap

Studies 2: I-IV

Gravity Trap, 1986,

oil on canvas

Traps or Tools & Damage:

elements of an inaugural professorial lecture,

an online version in the process of composition (with illustrations)

Allen Fisher.Traps or Tools & Damage.pdf