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  • lava disco
    concept for club night posters
    Digital Imaging, Graphic Design, Typography
    2012
  • string theory
    kylie reduced
    Digital Art, Fine Arts
    2012
  • particles forms
    beginning and ending, i aways seem to return to simple forms
    Digital Art, Fine Arts, Philosophy
    2011
  • kylie particles
    worlds within worlds, never ending, and no truth to be found
    kylie
    2011
  • set theory (grid fragments)
    image for the back of a set of cards
    (the face side might take a time)
    Philosophy
    2011
  • structure
    are friends electric? a time to be so small. 33,000 honeybees.
    Graphic Design, Philosophy, Photography
    2011
  • balance machine
    experimental digital animation and musique concrète
    Digital Art, Music, Video Arts
    2011
  • water
    ducks like water
    Photography, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • wa
    32 photographs, paired randomly and composited using outlines from a character inked in style of Japanese calligraphy.
    Photography, Photo Manipulation, Calligraphy
    2011
  • a world of non-linearity
    sampled and blurred photographs transformed into video
    Music, Photo Manipulation, Video Arts
    2011
  • architecture
    snapshots of shifting structures
    Digital Art
    2011
  • dots
    dots as fundamental particles
    Digital Art, Fine Arts, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • quantum theory of theories
    scans of notebook
    Fine Arts, Digital Art
    2011
  • memory loss hope
    simple geometric forms combined to symbolise complex processes
    Fine Arts, Digital Art
    2011
  • quantum random number theory
    exploring how random dots crystallise into structures. is this our foundation, our fundamental, upon which everything is built?
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • harmony
    the act of dissecting space is a spiritual process rather than a mechanistic/physical one. our external structures must exist in harmony with our internal (non-physical) ones.
    Drawing
    2011
  • a theory of happiness is a theory of everything
    there are many aspects to our pursuit of happiness, layers of varying levels of abstraction; taken together we might create a composite view of happiness, to show that there is not a single definition or theory. is happiness in theories that seek to describe everything? perhaps even a theory of everything wouldn't describe happiness...
    Digital Art
    2011
  • train moments
    Leeds to Blackpool train
    photos taken on phone, enlarged with minimal adjustments
    Photography
    2011
  • 10,000
    photographs of people reduced to points of light, are our souls reduced too? is this what we really are, separate, luminous, floating on an invisible grid of darkness? are we joined or separate?
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • bird nature
    symbols drawn in response to haiku by Bashō
    Drawing, Digital Imaging, Photography
    2011
  • colours
    each colour is a photograph reduced to a dot

    in order to restore pictorial reality / in order to reset it
    all this beauty and horror reduced to colours makes us blind
    there is a pressure, a compression, pressing on all sides. my hands are full of lead, i can feel the blood pressing in on my eyes
    colours that not even blindness could cure
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • dependent origination
    the image is still whole but the relationships between the pieces become more complex with every iteration
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • particle theory
    what is the true nature of our bodies?
    Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • body space
    body as a cell, a fluid organic structure; cell as an enclosing, constricting space; cell as a symbolic, transforming space.
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • 3 symbols
    birth growing forming

    life healing joining

    death decaying fragmenting
    Photo Manipulation, Fine Arts
    2011
  • reduce & return
    do we really understand our symbols even when their geometry is pure? are they even our symbols? where do they come from and return to?
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • base series
    photographs reduced to simple line outlines and layered together
    Digital Art, Fine Arts, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • doll forest
    forest is where doll lives
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • form space
    is there behind our solid world a space of ghostly, translucent, floating forms?
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art, Philosophy
    2011
  • interior design
    photographs and drawings of objects layered together become transparent, fluid forms
    Fine Arts, Digital Art, Photography
    2011
  • doll still life
    doll's body occupies a shifting, translucent space
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • composite (blue red smoke)
    expansion of the still, lifeless body/object into a moving, dynamic state
    reduction of a moving, living body into a static, lifeless object
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • poa
    sampling source photographs reduces them to abstract representations; they obviously have a direct relationship with the original content but it is impossible to understand what the original image described because so little has been retained. because of this, the original meaning is incomplete but in its place is infinite variety and abstracted meaning, the symbolism of the tabula rasa, the blank slate.
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • mm
    in the space created by dissecting a photograph, particles float outside of time
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • maps
    everything is related (dependent) upon everything else. it is relations that give things the appearance of being things. in other words, what we see as an object is not the object itself, but an expression of infinitely many relationships, all acting on that point in space and time.
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • pole vault
    composites of pole vault videos
    Photo Manipulation, Digital Art
    2011
  • petri
    random processes in a contained space, evolution of form. created with a programming language that follows simple rules (turn left, turn right etc) to draw lines. this process bounded within a circle, and stopped, incomplete. why complicate things anymore? our planet is a cell, and all we hope to do is look in with wonder, and respect processes that we cannot control.
    Digital Art
    2011
  • forest
    forest is part of a series which collected into a grid tiny slices intuitively chosen from photographs
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • lipseyes
    the forest glows… it’s light sources are eyes which both receive and reflect light. there are symbols which appear inside closed eyes, like mirages
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • nerve
    photographs of bodies blurred. the body and the environment fuse, are in the same luminous state. where does our body end and the world begin? is it all equal... the victims are hidden, but at the same time, joined by virtue of a grid outside of our control? and these colours that we see, do they describe what our bodies are? perhaps we are neon, or also perhaps without colour? will we dissolve away?

    are these forms, constrained within a grid, trying to escape the cells in which they live? to assert individuality? to join with other souls that are in an equal state of unrest? or is suffering a purely personal state, and whilst we are all equal, we are also all alone?
    Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
    2011
  • doll dissection
    preparations for doll
    (~1991)
    Fine Arts
    2011
  • doll internal
    preparing for doll
    (~1991)
    Fine Arts
    2011
  • gesture
    postcard size paintings
    ~1989
    Fine Arts
    2011
  • nerve text
    everything was compressed in here, the idea of an alchemy that can heal us. doll is there, but finding her is difficult.
    Philosophy, Puppetry, Writing
    2011
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