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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