Siren Song
Early naturists sought to document the world through observation and reconstruction in 2d and 3d media. From basic drawing to prints, photos, microscopes and an ever-evolving digital technology looking at things up close and deep into the universe seeing the world shapes our understanding.
Like a scientific observer I have photographed both the natural world at the eyes observable level and photographed my subconscious drawing meditations. Implementing techniques that mimic the basic principles of organic organisms, i.e. heat symbolizing energy, movement or vibration, fission and reproduction I have created a body of work seen through the digital lens.
For the past 12 years I have manipulated the bones of my micro drawings, interlaced their structures on photographs, multiplied, refracted, and reconfigured them. These images represent an exploration of organic synthesis from the art of observation both subconscious and external. This play with biology on a visual level mimics actual scientific biosynthetic advances as I am also playing with a new matrix for envisioning the ways we see and experience life.
The precarious work of bioengineers both concerns and fascinates me as nature evolves amorally. Nature’s truth, to me is always both wonderous and disturbing. In the results of my experiments, one can find comparisons to Rorschachs and the geometry of mystics intimating creatures, insects, and ghosts suited to the limits of our human perceptions and imaginations. This current moment of imagination and breaking the limits of CRISPR, DNA technology is the crux of my creative fascination, and foreboding.
Man has used technology both to highlight and exact dominion over nature. I wonder in this age of what is called the 6th extinction event with 25% of all plant life diversity endangered if we will ever create anything as beautiful or awesome as what will be lost.
I see my images and this body of work as a siren song. Whether we are destroyed or transformed, all is change. I will likely not be around for the final reading.
