My process is to apply systems of organization and combination to a fixed set of elements in order to create work that is discovered rather than shaped. By working within prescribed parameters and self-imposed limitation, I seek to create work that coaxes meaning from process and material rather than composing from intention. This process makes me feel like I am unlocking some secret code that is embedded in our visual culture.
In my most recent body of work I've created a series of woven collages using paper strips that are by-products of industrial printing processes. Off-cuts and test patterns from the margins of product packaging and corporate collateral act as raw material and blueprint, dictating the work’s final shape through their own formal logic and systems of arrangement determined by me. In these paper pieces redolent of textiles and grid-based abstract painting, I attempt to fashion explorations of pattern and arrangement that conjure op-art and color theory experiments. By employing materials that are vestigial artifacts of the technologies of reproduction I use the the work to try to decode a visual systems embedded in our visual culture.
In my most recent body of work I've created a series of woven collages using paper strips that are by-products of industrial printing processes. Off-cuts and test patterns from the margins of product packaging and corporate collateral act as raw material and blueprint, dictating the work’s final shape through their own formal logic and systems of arrangement determined by me. In these paper pieces redolent of textiles and grid-based abstract painting, I attempt to fashion explorations of pattern and arrangement that conjure op-art and color theory experiments. By employing materials that are vestigial artifacts of the technologies of reproduction I use the the work to try to decode a visual systems embedded in our visual culture.
