| Artist
Statement
For several years, my artistic output has been an investigation
into the creative potential of rule-based processes. Of
particular interest is the notion that such processes can
allow one to arrive at final resolutions that were not predictable
at the outset: each composition is discovered through the
processes used, rather than the process being merely employed
to achieve pre-conceived images envisioned in “the
mind’s eye”.
I have become an author of rules that facilitate a working
flexibility between pre-determined choices and unpredictable
results: my work is a pictorial record of these dynamics.
Currently, I impose stamped impressions of selected objects,
step by step, over the whole area of a more randomly produced
background.
White has become a preferred choice in signifying the impartiality
of this method: it not only covers whatever is underneath,
but also naturally creates the rhythm and ambiguity of figure/ground
relationships that ultimately characterises the whole composition.
White also makes a feature of the subtle, but distinct,
variations that characters attain through the unpredictable
corruptions of otherwise identical steps in the mechanical
process.
It is only through clearly seeing these many little “imperfections”
that the unfolding schema of the work can avoid appearing
overly rigid, and demonstrate the interplay between deliberate
intention and the acceptance of accidents that philosophically
underpins my art. |
