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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