Digital Mack

I’m a combination of opposite energies from different sides of the planet. My father is from the UK and my mother, the Philippines. I was born in the UK but I grew up in the apparent “new South Africa”, and have been consistently traveling from one place to the next ever since I was a child. I used to draw all the time when I was younger but as the years passed I was told that it was not a sustainable path and so my creative side lay dormant for years. I chased the “dream” like many others and like many others found myself having all my material cravings answered yet, like many others, I woke up to a reality which was that of a self-contained prison of illusion. I was empty yet so full of… shit 🙂

The universe has a strange way of correcting one when on the incorrect path. I worked in fracking, a good position for someone so young at the time and came across a person that radically changed my life in a short space of time. I quit my job and left my life behind. This path eventually led me to picking up a pen again after a decade…

I guess I started drawing out of an inner craving to create once again. I tried to ignore it for as long as I could but could always feel that at some point I had to feed that craving. Every piece I make is a manifestation of my emotions at the time. I can’t seem to create without having a heart full of emotion. The pieces are mixed media, digitally edited, once drawn either on paper or on my laptop using a wacom tab. Each piece has a distinct and unique path on how it was created. I use a number of methods to get the results and I tend not to plan how each piece will look. It kinda just comes to me… if that makes any sense!?! I’m always experimenting with techniques.

I don’t really like saying “oh this is a picture of that”, because I want the person viewing the picture to see what they need to see. It should come to them in their own time. There is a message in each piece that may be unique to one person and to the next, a totally different and unique experience in them.