Semple instinctively captures the sense of catastrophe within the manufactured image and therefore the recording of mass culture
itself is highlighted across the series in his freezing of snap-shot moments, a pivotal point of crisis for the image itself, often
embellished with painterly emotive stokes. This body of work is an unsettling but exquisite invitation to ask questions about our
shared mythologies and our personal relationship with the colorful, fractured world we inhabit that is transforming with ever
paralyzing intensity.
Angelus, acrylic, charcoal, chalk, graphite, vinyl, paint marker on canvas, 240x170x7cm, 2009