Icarus

Hand-pulled 2-colour screenprint edition at 87 x 87cm on hand-pressed Somerset Velvet 250gsm archival rough-edged cotton rag paper. gold leaf and matte black ink. Signed, titled & numbered /100.

*THIS ARTWORK IS PRE-ORDER AND WILL BE READY ON THE 1st May 2019*

Final release price will be £200.

Eternity

Hand-pulled screenprint fine art edition at 56 x 76 cm on hand-pressed Somerset Velvet 250gsm archival rough-edged cotton rag paper. matte charcoal ink. Signed, titled & numbered /100.

Sleep 🌙

Sculpted wax head, shattered and then photographed. The head was finally reassembled back to it’s original state. Sleep is fragile and temporary.
John Foxx & John Karborn. 2019

Pleasure & Beauty

Spraypaint and etched out letters on london street paving slab. By KARBORN + MOBSTR 2018.

£2000 SOLD

Theatre of Memory
£2500 SOLD

I would just like you to know that it’s about lots of different things, made in lots of different ways.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Cutting select sentences from BBC news articles is a good game.

Dubplate business still though... My music is rare, unique, individual. Your mp3?... anyone can have that. My piece is so sharp, it’ll cut your head off! I don’t care about music democracy anymore, I care about music speciality. HAHAHA!

Time.

No you don’t.

You can go anywhere, anytime, your only limitation is your imagination.

Please take your time. There is so much to see here.

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When I grew up I thought everyone would be into jungle and garage tunes but hardly anyone I knew was, in the end.

I thought that was the future once…

Then you notice everything changes, and time becomes less linear… what’s new becomes less important in a way. the past becomes more interesting to explore than the future. Because you weren’t there then and it looks so different from your perspective now.

The tunes become rarer and even completely unknown by your peers. So you find a sense of identity in something that’s more individual to you... More mysterious, more imaginative. Every snap and pop and crackle on the vinyl becomes a recording of time itself. the years etched into the sound of music that you’ve found for yourself, made great by your selection.

That’s why I’ll always dig for old records. Forever and ever.

John Karborn ︎