Recently I watched Here Is Always Somewhere Else, a feature length documentary about the life and work of Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader. The isolation that is often experienced both as a human and as an artistic individual is something that often informs my work, and the film raised some interesting points surrounding this. Ader's simple performance art allowed space for so many facets to his work - humour (the instantaneous slapstick moments of the artist falling of his bicycle into a river in Fall 2) philosophy (the ultimate shortcomings of the human condition in the face of the complexities of the world around us - the force of gravity is pivotal In his work) and romanticism (the sense of loss and alienation seen in I'm Too Sad to Tell You). I was also interested by the point made that much of Ader's work attempts to keep a balance of irony and melancholy - a balance difficult to master but one which I explore in attempts to both subvert what I see around me and at the same time express my very human emotions of fear, sadness and love. There was something deeply moving about some of Bas Jan Ader's work, and an underlying sense of failure and hopelessness. I found it interesting to see such qualities in conceptual art, an area not often thought of as being overly emotional. I found I'm Too Sad to Tell You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzBCl6iVoc) particularly moving - the direct confrontation and acceptance by the artist of the overwhelming feelings of human loneliness, made all the more poignant by his ultimate performance In Search of The Miraculous - a tragic one man attempt to sail the Atlantic. I have made an homage to Bas Jan Ader's conceptual Romanticism in a small video work Relativity (Trying Not to Cry) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vrwm905IU), in which I reflect on the struggles of human expression, interaction, and understanding.