On a cloudy day at the end of a pier, as the light wanes, the horizon becomes an indistinct, fuzzy expanse. At night, lights shining on shifting water produce a twinkling, elusive pattern. Desert rock formations appear designed yet organic. Speeding past an orchard in a car, a clear view of perfect rows of trees extending into the distance interchanges with an abstract blur of greens, browns, and blues. On a dark night, peering into the window of a room lit by a single, unseen candle, only the haunting outlines of the room's contents are revealed.
Amorphous forms combined with clean edges, and patterned structures disintegrating into chaos populate my work. Writing algorithms to generate images lets me experiment with systems, with shifts between structure and disorder, precision and randomness. Rendering in 3D allows me to play with the pull between 2D and 3D space, the subtelty of lights and shadows, and the contrast between clean, graphic forms and smudges. With motion blur, I can create beautiful marks, while adding another dimension to my work, a sense of the passage of time.
wavering structures, calculated smudges,
planned accidents, shifting logic,
faltering certainty, nebulous clarity,
agitated stillness, roaring silence.