Cryosleep

 

 

Utilizing various sounds made by running computers, an atmosphere is created. The noise of computers thinking generates a dark, cold drone, that is conducive to sleep.

 

Out in space, with nothing to cast a shadow, there is no day or night. Aided by computers, you can sleep for eternity.

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Reptile

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.

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Mind Control

• Neon Yantra •

Watercolour, pencil, and felt-tip pen on watercolour paper.

The yantra is an instrument for meditation, a diagram to focus the mind.

The fractured surface, with its geometric lattice of self-similar elements induces a quality of movement. This movement, towards and away from the centre, has an effect similar to hypnosis, merging the view in front with some inner landscape of the mind.

Beneath the surface there is geometry, vitrified skin and light.

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Threshold I

Synthetic polymer paint, and fluorescent gaffer tape on boxboard.

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This rhombus is a prototype, the starting point (threshold) of an object of reflection.

The luminescent (lumin [light] essence) tape, radiates colour from behind the painted surface. A photon is absorbed as an equivalent photon is immediately emitted.

The geometric form resembles a hallucination experienced in the transitional state between waking, and sleeping (Hypnagogia). Lucid dreaming, the subjective experience on the edge of sleep, occurs at this threshold of consciousness.

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Kaleidoscopic Skin II

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.

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Mind Blank

Ballpoint pen on copy paper.

These drawings emerge during the monotony of work. Where the mind is quiet with boredom, oscillating in the open space of alpha waves.

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Crystal Virus ◊

Xerographic print on cardboard.


It is thought that the virus emerged at the same time as the first single cells.

The living cell operates as vector to this obverse structure. Neither alive or dead, the virus is a self-modifying code, able to genetically alter the infected cells. Once inside, the virus reproduces by creating multiple copies of itself, through a process of self-assembly.


The infection causes unique patterns.

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Squaring the Circle

Xerographic print on cardboard.

Squaring the circle refers to an ancient problem in geometry, to create a square and a circle with the same area, using only a compass and ruler. It became a metaphor for trying to do the impossible, as the problem was never solved, and it was only discovered to be unachievable in the late nineteenth century.

In alchemy, squaring the circle referred to a specific symbol that was a clue towards acquiring the philosopher's stone. The figure was a nested sequence of circle, square, triangle, circle.

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As with most alchemical language, it was actually a metaphor describing the unity of opposites. The diagram signifies body, soul, and spirit and was a lesson about wholeness, the unification of the self.

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Is this all there is?

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Try and do the same thing twice, you will find infinite variation•

Look closer at anything, and you will unravel exquisite detail•

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State of Flux

Hallucinations of the primary visual cortex, 2012-13.
3.9m x 4.9m approx.
Xerographic print on copy paper, Acrylic and ink on board.


I was recently included in a group exhibition of works by Sydney College of the Arts Masters candidates at Delmar Gallery, Ashfield.  

The exhibition included artists Adam Adelpour, Lucas Davidson, Kasane Low, Chris Raymond, Nicola Walkerden, Amanda Williams, Ling Yuen.

Thanks to curators Geoff Weary and Catherine Benz for my inclusion.

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Junk Geode V : Meteorite

Xerographic print on copy paper, poster board, and metalized polyester film.


The rarest types of meteorite to strike the Earth are colourfully patterned and metallic. Meteorites typically contain vividly coloured, translucent, mineral crystals, embedded in a silvery nickel-iron metal.

They arrive concealed in strange organic shapes, charred from entering the Earth's atmosphere, and can be cut and polished to reveal their brilliant gemstone qualities.

I like to think of this meteorite traveling great distances through outer-space, created from the destruction of an ancient planet, a shard from the early universe.
 

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Kaleidoscopic Skin

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.


This is a painted skin that I will apply to the surface of a maquette for the next iteration in the junk geode series.

The form of this geode is an irregular polyhedron split in two connecting units. The skin will extend across the fractured surfaces, unifying the two halves with pattern, and colour.

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Black Mass: Cygnus X-1

{ Liturgy for a black hole }

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Known as the celestial swan, the constellation Cygnus has been the source of myth since the Neolithic era. Many ancient monuments of worship were built aligned to its coordinates, as it lays to the north, near the summer solstice.

Cygnus X-1 is a black hole, located in the Cygnus constellation. It was first observed 1964 as one of the strongest X-ray sources that could be seen in space, and was identified as a black hole because of its relationship to the star HDE 226868.

Cygnus X-1 and HDE 226868 orbit each other forming a high-mass X-ray binary, where the star is visible by the emission of light, while the black hole is the dominant source of X-rays.

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All my sound work can be found @SoundCloud.com

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The Noise of Closed-Eye Vision

In a darkened room, or with your eyes closed, you may have experienced the noise of closed-eye vision. The phenomenon of closed-eye hallucinations, or a phosphene, is the perceived sensation of seeing light, when no light is actually entering the eye.

There is form in the indistinguishability of dark events.

Even in the absence of light, some impulses are still sent along the optic nerve, causing the sensation of an animated, dark coloured noise.

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Night Works, the City Rises

Sound is becoming an increasing concern within my work. I have always been interested in music, but more and more it is the sound of real environments, and incidental noises, that interest me.

Here I have used the recorded sound of construction, a bulldozer digging earth. As the people sleep the city grows, and always the worms enrich the soil.

Very simply, I compose the instruments in the manner of aleatoric music, intuitively making patterns with synthesizers.

In the future, I intend to use sound in convergence with my visual art practice.


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Hallucinations of the Primary Visual Cortex III

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.

My thinking is revealed, through the work. The process acts as an apparatus, that can synthesize chaotic elements of the mind. From the noise of competing thoughts, ideas, and memories (etc.) information is distilled into a pure form, of organized complexity. The work is a symbol, able to be understood intuitively, by myself, or anyone.

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Isomorphic Exercise

Watercolour, with pen and ink on cardboard.

Isomorphism is apparent when two separate entities share similarities in form, shape, or structure. A biological isomorphism is the similarity in form between organisms of different ancestry.

Emerging here are a group of forms that are exactly equal and alike. This could be the mapped landmass of an unknown world, or a hexagonal petri dish being used to culture the cells of microscopic organisms. These entities have such a close similarity, or resemblance, as to be essentially equal or interchangeable and isomorphic.

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Wi†ch Hat Geode

Poster board and spun sugar.

The witch hat geode is a continuation of my Junk Geode series, that mimics these geological forms with found materials. The shell is an octagonal pyramid that holds a crystal (sugar) interior. The spun sugar is exposed, and over time, will continue to contract and solidify.

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Proof by exhaustion •

Irregular table tennis balls.

When stacking spheres, there are two regular lattices that achieve the highest density. They differ in how the sheets are stacked upon one another, and are called face-centered cubic, and hexagonal close-packed. These formations have been used in models to describe the atomic arrangements of crystal structures. In many cases the atoms of a crystal pack together as tightly as possible.


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I am interested in the way these mathematical objects coalesce. The repetition of spheres, creating volumes, invisible polyhedrons, with straight lines from curves.


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Hallucinations of the Primary Visual Cortex II

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.

The building blocks of life, four basic elements (substances that are made of only one type of atom) from which almost all life forms on Earth are primarily made up of are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon.

The elements of my work are points, lines, triangles and hexagons.

When two or more atoms join together through chemical or ionic bonding, they make up a new molecule. Elements can combine together in many different ways to form thousands of different compounds.

This hallucination is generated through systematic procedures I have discovered in my investigation into the limits of these elements.

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Drawing With Video: Text

Film taglines.

Packaging warning labels, and information.

Quote taken from the Upanishads.

Ballpoint pen on Office paper, A6



I have now scanned some five-hundred images from my Drawing With Video collection, including some pages of text, as shown here. I will have to edit this collection further, to be produced as one book, or compose them into volumes.

These images are a loose collection, like an unbound diary, yet are significant as they illustrate my thinking, and the ideas that underpin my art, over a considerable period of time.

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Superficial Disfigurement

Bubblegum, felt-tipped pen, and acrylic on board.

The surface of the board, an artificial cell, scarred by a parasite or sarcoma. The growth emerges from the cell, or the parasite seeps into the vector. The geometric seeks life (existence, being), in so doing it becomes vulnerable to illness, and decay.

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