it is often stated that : art reflects the cultural value of our times - it does reflect popular culture as driven by the movers and shakers of modern capitalism. The commercial art giants of the past twenty years inflicted on society a form of dictatorship of art - it was driven by capitalism in the form of popular culture. thousands of social thinking fine artists,photographers and sculptures were simply locked out of the mainstream. I detect that with the advent of economic adversity and social upheavel there is an opportunity for these artists to impact on the mainstream.
If we look back at the great social realists of the 1930's they invested much of their careers to furthering notions and philosophies of social justice, I believe that with skill and professionalism art can be used to further social causes. I am still at the formative stages of developing new technology to produce fine art - I have a fairly well honed instinct that if people like what they see the messages will follow. All my exhibited images now will carry a small essay on themes of social justice whatever that may be is up for criticism. With the democratisation of modern exhibition technology it is much easier. As an old emeritus professor once told me - 'it's hard to break down the walls of Jericho'