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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