Brian Spiteri in Profile
Taken one by one the physical activities of collage-making appear disarmingly simple, so simple in fact that their significance easily escapes notice.  However, when they are taken together, as an integrated series of transformations, a quite surprising symbolism appears. The activities entailed in making and physically transforming collages can then be seen to embody the logic of our psychological development.  These activities comprise an extended metaphor; they symbolize the growth of the human mind.
Paper is the main medium used; the palette takes advantage of its portable and tactile qualities.  The nature of colláge and its tactility produces layers partially informing the viewer of the process and journey.  The fragmentation of paper resources, as opposed to using them in their entirety, is a method used to break down and abbreviate imagery into a re-interpretable format.  This is suitable for combining multiple sources and arriving at more substantial context and interpretive meaning in the form of hybrid imagery.  This is analogous to the etymological breaking down of words in search of meaning and origin. 
Sourcing paper material culture is an infinite and intricate journey conducive to the idea of continuous observation and note taking; keeping the work both experiential and experimental.   The system of researching and sourcing a vast range of visual textural sensations and contemporary references, improvised and rapidly laid down, is in itself an unconscious system of language.
Brian Spiteri appears in this exhibition courtesy of Watson Place Gallery