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The object of this work, this 'strip' of images, is to make Coventry look like a foreign country. Using the rather ironic tongue in cheek title 'Coventry Las Vegas'.
Las Vegas is largely a fantasy environment constructed by man and woman, a 'strip' between the desert and the sea. But is Coventry as an image any less a construct?
I set out to make the camera lie all the time, more than anything the images here remove real objects from their everyday context, treating buildings and places rather like found objects.
Working with shape, form and broad areas of colour, some of them faded or fading like a down at heel seaside town. Broad areas of natural colour hardly appears in the urban environment. Also, bringing out the textures in the more minimalist images as a reward to people who give them more than a cursory glance.
Our built environment here, seemingly, with its people largely noticeable by their absence, although, undoubtedly, with only a few exceptions, the work of humans.
The use of signs and their meanings crept in almost coincidentally, in this work, this look at Camera Principis. Signs are everywhere in the urban environment, and may be read at many levels. Why did the painter paint the wall blue? Many of the signs were meant to attract, although not on the scale of Vegas, the green wall signifies Ireland. There's also a 'Hogarthian' morality tale going through the work.

/1 Belgrade Fountain
/2 Bar Caramba, Far Gosford Street
/3 University Library
/4 Lower Ford Street
/5 Friar's House
/6-7 Unknown
/8 Riley's American Pool Hall, Hertford Place
/9 Christian Science Society Coventry
/10 Seat Car Dealership, Spon End
/11 Cash machine and telephone box (Bull Yard?)
/12 The Deli, Jordan Well
/13 Skydome Car Park
/14 The Jailhouse Inn, Much Park Street
/15 Abandon Nightclub
/16 Unknown
/17 Coventry Transport Museum
/18 Amusement Arcade (Hertford Street/Burges?)
/19 Unknown
/20 Post Box in wall of County Hall
/21 Red nightclub
/22 H&T Pawnbrokers
/23 'Far East' Martial Arts sportswear shop, Spon End
/24 Unknown
/25 National Garage (Tyres and Autocare)
/26 Poster advertising Golbal Gathering Festival in Stratford-Upon-Avon
/27 Adult Shop
/28 Artspace (Coventry Artists Co-operative Limited)
/29 Jokers Corner (Costume and fancy dress hire), corner of Jordan Well and White Friars
/30 Louis fish and chip shop, Bishop Street