Patterns have their own rationale. I feel certain things when viewing patterns. Then, thinking about what has happened to my awareness, I respond. Some of my work addresses abstracted ideas about information. Mostly, I am making work about perception itself and the phenomenal nature of being alive in a chaotic sensorial world.

I want to develop my intuition about complex systems in order to make my work non objectively powerful. I am interested in a kind of visual tuning. Making patterns which can be tuned like a sound instrument, measuring the density and flow of a visual harmonic. I use digital tools to render these ideas, working by hand without automation.

Telescopes and microscopes generate a deeper experience of the natural world, extending our senses by virtue of invention, revealing what was once hidden in plain sight. I find that enriching beyond my ability to articulate. In the buildup of details into a larger idea inside my pictures, perhaps these perceptions are focused and expressed.

January 2010