Francis Bacon once said about the  reading of a painted work of art.
     “There is an area of the nervous system to which the texture of paint communicates more violently than anything else.”
     Bacon’s own work obviously took the idea of violence in art very seriously; dealing with it on several planes - literal, metaphysical, physical, psychological... This piece is a portrait of abuse, with an homage to Francis Bacon.  It investigates the multidimensional nature of abuse; how it can often be, at once, all-encompassing torture and a type of bittersweet twisted dependency; how it can be multifaceted, with a rippling effect that often blurs the line between victim and victimizer. It also takes seriously the violence associated with photography, video making, filmmaking - art forms which at their very essence are violent in that they take, capture another’s image, often without consent.