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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Sections of Infinity

Installation view.

This is my final work of my Master's degree, on exhibition as part of the Sydney College of the Arts Postgraduate Degree Show.
Abstraction is a result of thinking about uncertainty, infinity is an indeterminate number, and through an effort of imagination I seek to describe the realms of the indefinite. Where not things made, but things in the making, not self maintaining states but only changing states, exist.

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Hallucinations of the primary visual cortex

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

The primary visual cortex, located at the back of the brain (posterior pole), is the simplest cortical visual area. It is responsible for the processing of spacial information regarding static and moving objects, and is integral in pattern recognition. Hallucinations of the primary visual cortex have been classified into four groups (form constants), all geometric in nature, and include tunnels, spirals, lattices, and cobwebs.

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