new work blurb

Recent work has developed my explorations of the dialectic between the digital and the hand made. Digital drawings and found graphics merge with painstakingly obsessive hand rendered tracing of motifs and messages from my travels around the internet; more specifically how I live my personal life by communicating via technology. Snippets of text from emails and text messages from lovers/potential lovers are abstracted and re-presented in animated montages. I have been interested in examining notions of materiality/immateriality through the cyclical process of making these drawings and animations. The starting point may be a photograph that I have taken of a text message, or a screen grab of an email, which is then fed into the computer and projected onto the wall or printed out for me to trace. I then photograph or scan the image, and it is subjected to a ‘re-drawing’ with the digital tools – simulacra of real tools – and then projected as a slide show of confused and sometimes ambiguous imagery. This process weaves in and out of the material and immaterial, the original and the copy (which is which?). These communications (and the nature of human relationships) are so fleeting and temporal; I pin them down by hand rendering them, I assimilate them into my own visual language. I then destroy this by taking away the materiality of the hand rendered drawing through presenting them projected on the wall….they are inaccessible, and non existent.