An exhibition in collaboration with the City of Culture Valletta 2018 program. A city wide collaboration resulting in a data driven work fed by all the stories of places and people submitted.

The Fall is a triptych on a massive scale. Each measuring 250cmx175cm Oil painting on stretched canvas. A grandiose over the top series of paintings depicting the emotionally charged rise and fall of order and structure. Drawing from John Martin's enormous paintings of biblical destruction as arrogance and power become overwhelmed by natural forces of change, using color to evoke shades of memory. The first painting in the triptych, "Constantinople" depicts a gleaming idealised city, with delicate spires and towers rising out of central citadel, rising atop a swarming mass. Dark dirty energy powers the structures from underneath, as in the greasy mechanical bowels of the modern sleek cities. The dichotomy within this subject illuminates the fragility of those glassy towers over the dark powerful guts of the city underneath a brooding, tempestuous sky. The second painting, "Atlas Shrugs" depicts a terrifying state. At the moment of utter destruction, the toxic cloud erupting through the field of vision, all need and responsibility to one another thrown aside, all ambitions rendered pointless and futile. The mythological burden of man falls, as man himself is dissolved.

The third painting, "Atomisation" depicts the buzzing white noise of sub-atomic particles frenziedly crackling through the vacuum of nothingness remaining. This is the final stage of the cycle before the return to idealism