My new paintings deal with the subject of sound and communication in a visual language. I am interested in the ‘containers’ for sound, used in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, called ‘subwoofers’. The subwoofer is a speaker system, that captures sound in a way that we can’t; we can’t see sound, we can only hear it passing. One can’t capture sound but can put it into a body where it becomes likes a soul, but invisible. In the painting ‘Sabufta’, I have used images and colours that have a nostalgic feel to them, to recall the technology of an age. An age, which for me, has been necessary to re-visit, in order to make a visual relationship depicting symbolic structures. For example, the computer as a brain and the video camera as eyes. This brooding subject matter conjures up associations with the film Metropolis (1927), a silent movie by Fritz Lang, and the Manga animation interpretation of it in 2001). I am interested in Metropolis because the visuals were ahead of their time. I want to use the retro-futurist style of metropolis to demonstrate technological effects. The Manga Metropolis influenced me because it depicts the future visually in a style, which is fantastic and some parts of the film reflect what is happening today. My paintings and their concerns reflect the way that I see the world, as I have visual difficulties. I have become more reliant on sound, and hearing has subsequently become very sharp as a result. It is this experience that has informed these paintings of containers of sound. Influences on my work include the pop/conceptual artists Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburgh, Barbara Kruger and Adam Dix. Also the films Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott, Videodrome (1983) by David Cronenberg, Brazil (1985) by Terry Gilliam and the video work of Nam June Paik.