Organic Tessellating Cell: Unit 1

Digital vector image on cardboard.

Devised for a hexagonal grid, this folded skin connects on all six sides, tessellating and extending into an imagined infinity. The organic form is contained in one cell on a two-dimensional plane. The placement of connecting folds was adapted from a series of hand drawn tiles originating from an isometric grid.
The view of the many tiles appears as a window onto an unseen skin, a cut into the fabric of reality, like a hole in a skull revealing the brain.
 

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Drawing With Video

Ballpoint pen on Office paper, A6


During my part time work over the past five years as a video store clerk I produced a volume of A6, biro drawings like these. Using A4 office paper quartered and torn I recorded my ideas in hours of boredom and continued progressing my aesthetic.The format was small so I could fit the drawings in my pocket for discretion around management, this size also allowed for an immediacy which pushed my style and was conducive to any impulse.

Now having finished this job, with another store closure, I intend to arrange the best of these drawings (having kept them in a chronological stack), scan them and produce a book under the title Drawing With Video.

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Materialization dematerializatioN

The process of coming into being that starts with a mathematical point, an indivisible atom, that groups like a molecule to other atoms and converge as cells. This artificial instant is caught in the perpetual flux of generation and destruction.

Watercolour, pencil and ink on found paper.  
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Candy Floss Decay

A fascinating material, cotton candy (aka fairy floss) is spun sugar coloured with food dye. As it is mostly air the voluminous form decays quickly and the sugar congeals becoming hard with a wrinkled, rock-like solidity. During the process of decay the floss releases a sweet sugary aroma and maintains it bright colour pigment.
I will continue to document this transformation and have identified further applications of the material including time-lapse photography and installation.

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Bioluminescence Through Inversion II

Another ectoplasmic aggregate variant.
Watercolour, pencil and ink on paper.  
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