‘Witch Stone, Seed Pods, Bee Hive’, 2023
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
I recently completed a series of cartographic drawings. Drawings like ‘Witch Stone, Seed Pods, Bee Hive’ or ‘Spore, Bingo, Evolution’ are tools that help envisage energies we cannot see in the world, though we may feel them: the energy between a person and a tree, or a tree and the microscopic life beneath it.
The objects in the drawings are navigated between, and with this navigation, there is hope of revealing something unseen by a culture of discrete quantifiables that everything is part of an interdependent system. Playing with the codes of quantifiables (grids, maps, and blueprints), the form is also subverted through the printing process. It reverses the image, including the text, whose meaning becomes skewed.
Looking in the small is looking at a different world. Each fragment is an actor within a new imagined system and also, perhaps, an element in a game.
This is a game whose rules are unknown to us. An invitation to unlearn the rules, and thus disinhibit the perceptions we have of our surroundings and how we relate to them. By decom- posing and fragmenting rules, knowledge, and habits, I believe these can be rebuilt to meet contemporary needs to foster a shift in our society paradigm.
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
I recently completed a series of cartographic drawings. Drawings like ‘Witch Stone, Seed Pods, Bee Hive’ or ‘Spore, Bingo, Evolution’ are tools that help envisage energies we cannot see in the world, though we may feel them: the energy between a person and a tree, or a tree and the microscopic life beneath it.
The objects in the drawings are navigated between, and with this navigation, there is hope of revealing something unseen by a culture of discrete quantifiables that everything is part of an interdependent system. Playing with the codes of quantifiables (grids, maps, and blueprints), the form is also subverted through the printing process. It reverses the image, including the text, whose meaning becomes skewed.
Looking in the small is looking at a different world. Each fragment is an actor within a new imagined system and also, perhaps, an element in a game.
This is a game whose rules are unknown to us. An invitation to unlearn the rules, and thus disinhibit the perceptions we have of our surroundings and how we relate to them. By decom- posing and fragmenting rules, knowledge, and habits, I believe these can be rebuilt to meet contemporary needs to foster a shift in our society paradigm.
‘Spore, Bingo, Evolution’, 2023
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper, 90cm x 64cm
‘Radish, Holley Stone, Electron’, 2023
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
‘Protozoa, Kale, Voltaire’, 2023
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
‘Potatoes, Clay, Ants’,2023
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
Monoprint, oil paint on recycled paper,
90cm x 64cm
