There is only is And all is this is-ing Distortion of nothing And nothing is missing
The this and the that The there was and will be Ten thousand cracks Turn a mirroring sea
On a boat trip from chaos The One And the None Moved to play Come fading reflections Rocks, friends and spiders Floating fellow insiders To welcome your stay At the Surf-ace cafe
Each one of them fruit Grows Sustains And decays A perfect harmonious note Only echoed in mind Appears to remain
Keep your hands in the boat! Let change loose on its way There is only change And all is this changing The rippling surface it glistens Vibrations arranging So silence She listens Ever here, now and unaging
There is only is And all is this is-ing Distortion of no-thing And nothing is missing
Car Crash Flowers
2022, collage and watercolour on board, 52 x 64cm
Wormholes
2022, collage on board, 62 x 57cm
Doesn't Matter Terribly
2022, collage and acrylic on board, 110 x 65cm
Nonduality
2022, collage and watercolour on board, 80 x 50cm
And She Folded Herself In And Out Of Form
2022, collage and acrylic on baord, 125 x 63cm
Thereisonlyis
2021, mixed media on canvas, 150 x 100cm
Demanifesto
2020, collage on board, 102 x 88cm
Mountain Multiverse
2019, collage on board, 100 x 83cm
Today's Menu
2021, housepaint on door, 60 x 93cm
QI
Qi I
2022, collage and digital colour
Qi II
2022, collage and digital colour
Qi III
2022, collage and digital colour
Qi IV
2022, Collaged laserprint and acrylic on board, 67 x 57cm
failure
Fall
2022, collaged laser print and acrylic on board, 57 x 49cm
Fatastic Failure
2022, collage and digital colour
the frontier
I got fascinated by fractals, feedback loops and how order arises from chaos. This precipitated the following works. The collage/painting was made by photographing objects held in front of the canvas which were then printed and collaged over the existing image. This was a way to create recursive copies and build a structure and space perhaps akin to the way many systems find form in Nature.
Feedback Framework Frontier
2012, collage and acrylic on board, 2 x 1.2m
Framework
2010, ink on paper, 80 x 60cm
the swamp
FunGals
2010, pen on paper, 30 x 50cm
Open Relationship
2010, etching on paper, 21 x 30cm
Slaphead Wort
2010, etching on paper, 21 x 30cm
Hyperswamp
2012, video, 5m36secs
the golf course
The golf course was for some years a theme in much of my work. I had always felt strange when on a golf course. There was something very calming about the simplicity of the game and the neatly kept, wide-open spaces, but also something odd in the modeling of the natural elements to create a game environment, something like virtual reality and the new (at the time) realistic, immersive 3d digital worlds in video games. During these years I was recovering from a dissociative disorder and the fracturing and reconstruction of a stable sense of self and world were taking place in both my art and my mind.