Statement
These large-scale, digitally created artworks play with giant shifts and contrasts in scale, form and perception. They are influenced by the phenomenon of ‘closed eye visualizations’ – images that appear when the eyes are shut, and are generated in the absence of visual stimuli. ‘Phosphenes’ involve seeing light without light actually entering the eye, and can be induced by pressure on the eyeball. ‘Hypnogogic hallucinations’ occur before sleep. Sometimes these appear as vivid, pulsing geometric patterns or repetitive organic structures. Experience of this neurological process influences how I see the external world -- for example, the forms and details I observe within landscapes, buildings and water -- and this in turn feeds back into the way I generate the images.
Shifting between macro and micro perspectives, I digitally hand draw every element of the artwork, from pixel-by-pixel rendering of detailed abstractions to giant scribbles and swoops. Rather than aiming to create an aesthetically pleasing picture, I welcome dissonance and awkwardness in a spirit of openness and curiosity. The resulting image is a layered composition that may recall or evoke other sensory experiences or memories, such as a jazz improvisation, sour sweets, a Japanese cityscape, or the fragment of a dream.
My art practice encompasses music, writing, film, installation, drawing and painting, and incorporates both traditional and contemporary materials and technologies.
The artworks are printed directly from digital files and presented as large-scale, high resolution prints.