The imagery that makes up this show was catalysed by these two locations, the travel between them and the era they inhabit.
Alongside the principles of surveillance and bureaucracy, provenance and progress, paradise, loyalty, expanded universes and the Sonoran Desert, two subjects were predominant during the process of creating this work; the raucous socio-political environment of Jacobean Britain, and the succeeding history of 18th century Northern England’s most vivacious road-building eccentric, John Metcalf.
Motivated by the miscellany of themes above, through creating these images Al Jackson has tried to better understand the confounding relationship between the anxieties of an individual and those - as perceived - of culture itself.
