In ‘Alpen’ I restricted the decals on the tiles to 2 or 3 examples of appropriated imagery. These were then repeated across the surface of the sculpture as fragments that offered enough meaning to enable the viewer to guess their origin. They were printed onto a limited range of coloured tiles to create a spatial and tonal surface design familiar to packaging. The title of the work is a reference to the well known breakfast cereal. I have adopted it to help expose and parody how the word and the visual representations associated with it have been invented to conflate nature, mountains, and healthy living with a food product.

‘Façade’ imitates the view of a distant horizon of a hilly landscape. However, the pictorial illusion consists on closer inspection of a further conceit of stacked images appropriated from advertising that purport to represent nature.