The series of cards led to a further series of larger works, since titled ‘Zoetrope’. In these, I used a sponge roller to create repeated, but fading, motifs in rows across a page. I then responded to these by drawing and painting, in some detail, the figures suggested by and around these motifs. The recurring effect of frozen movements, repetition and fading images conjures up allusions to film making, particularly animation.

There are suggestions of merry-go-rounds and characters are suspended, swimming or flying, like angels, fairies or sphinxes. There are chorus lines and formation dancing as characters chase themselves on and off the page.