K sent me a link to John Isaac's site last week and I was simply blown away. I spent a couple of hours going back and forth between the various images spanning his career. We are simply amazed at the depth of Isaac's work. When you have some time to absorb some very powerful images, we urge you to check him out.
From the artist's bio:
Running alongside the seeming directness and simplicity of John Isaacs’
work there is a pervasive current of unease and anxiety that identifies
our modern way of life and its thinking as somehow warped, disjunctive
and off balance. Like the Surrealism of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, much
of Isaacs’ work seems to suggest that if you scratch at the surface of
conventional reality, then a repressed can of worms – a world of ugly
and uncomfortable truth – lies just below the thin plastic exterior of
our pre-packed modern sanitised world. Playing with the extremities and
taboos of the modern day norm, Isaacs’ art reveals a number of
uncomfortable truths that, he believes, we are all, to some extent,
conscious of.