Fine Arts

Beyond aesthetic intention, the real inscriptions of our environment are the expressive surface of the everyday (walking in a street: metallic shards impressed in road tar; bad movie download: seemingly organic shapes of clustered pixels). Despite being conventionally ‘uninteresting’ or mute, these peripheral effects mark the intersection of organic and artificial life. I find these incidental textural artefacts expressive of our technological milieu, language, and territory.

Using live-feed video/projector loops, my work concentrates on the significance of communication devices as forms of semiotic prosthetics. In the work’s phatic, material orientation, repetition itself functions as a material. The creative/generative potential of the moment is activated here by the ongoing possibility of change. Reinforced subtleties produce textures and rhythms, emerging from input/output reflexivity. The distinction between the objects and their images also assumes a material presence, invoking the physical and psychic space between them as a simultaneous barrier and point of entry.