My Work
My work manifests itself through a mixture photographic and drawing research, out of which pieces will slowly evolve. I usually experiment with a variety of processes until the right medium is found for whatever I am working on which increases my technical expertise. These activities deepen my understanding of what drives me which very simply is about how our world works. I try hard to understand the actual maths and physics behind what I instinctively know, see and feel but don’t pretend the rigorous inquiry of a scientist. However, I come from a family of Physicists and Mathematicians who are happy to help clarify issues within my research.
My view of the world is governed by patterns; it’s how I appreciate things. Patterns are all around us and are a way of understanding our universe and if you dream and drift, watch, look and learn from nature, become aware of your own interactions with what is around you, you begin to find and discover the most extraordinary connections between it all. A simple example of this is to observe the density map made by the stars in the night sky, the density map made by birds in flight or the density map made by electron clusters around an atom. The following quotation from Gregory Bateson’s Mind and Nature, A Necessary Unity (2002), seems to me, to sum it all up….
We have been trained to think of patterns, with the exception of those
in music, as fixed affairs. It is easier and lazier that way but, of course,
all nonsense. In truth, the right way to begin to think about the pattern
that connects is to think of it as primarily (whatever that means) a dance
of interacting parts and only secondarily pegged down by various sorts
of physical limits and by those limits which organisms characteristically
impose.
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