My recent work considers the parameters of that which is perceived as ‘real’. Researching phenomena which, to date, the laws of science cannot account for. I also became particularly engaged with studies in consciousness, sleep, dream states and contemplative traditions.
Source material for my work comes from film by way of a rudimentary method of extracting ‘stills’ designed to solicit numerous alterations to the original. Recent footage I’ve drawn from includes unidentifiable aerial phenomena, unusual weather events, and various Earth Sciences and Anthropology documentaries and archival videos. Alongside my small representional paintings I generate larger more abstracted pieces, based on the pigments and fragments and themes of my smallscale work. Additionally, I have started to incoporate tools from my process, e.g. painting rags became fascinating works that arose on their own accord as a result a simple rule sets (wiping brushes after colour mixing).
I neither believe nor disbelieve in extraordinary phenomena but remain in a state of playful imagination provoked by such accounts. This is in part a response to the ‘metacrisis’ (interweaving global crises, e.g. geopolitical, climate) over which I feel much torment, I choose to focus on what humankind has yet to figure out, contemplating possible alternative paradigms to the problematic, human centred one which predominates.