Four from the Professors series

More images from the Professors series from the early 1990’s; but why is the series called Professors? In the late 16^th and early 17^th centuries there were people who claimed to know what “true” religion was and they were referred to as Professors of the Truth. Their seamless combination of religion and politics changed society, changed Europe. In the present day it is the ecologists and people concerned about the environment that question our life choices and the way we impact the planet. These photographs are of artworks I constructed out of natural materials – earth, stone and wood – naturally balanced. They are photographed because they are unstable and not suitable for exhibiting in a gallery, they might fall over. And that is the point of the pieces. They represent the environment and like the environment they are easily unbalanced by human carelessness with catastrophic results. In creating the Professors artworks I was influenced by Arte Povera, Mono-ha and Fluxus.