These works consist of pixels or corpuscles, indivisible particles of information or matter combined and recombined with other particles into arrangements suggestive of organic growth, the synaptic connections within the brain or the expansion of cities, transport or telecommunication networks into the natural world.

They come from a set of ideas about the way the world is perceived and the way that information is recorded. Effluvium comes from the Latin root flow and corpuscle from the Latin corpus, body. This opposition begs the question; is the world is experienced as an (analogue) continuous flow of (digital) quanta, discrete sequential packets of information .

This work at relationships between nature and technology; how nature is mediated by technology and how nature is represented by science on one hand and art on the other.
I am interested in the relationship between human perception of nature, how we process it, and ‘nature’ itself.

The metaphor of the bitmap (digital) and the vector line, ( analogue) is an important device in my work. In Dendrite (slide 1) the bottom half of the tree pattern is digitised or pixellated and the upper half is rendered more naturalistically. It is a representation of a natural form via technology. It begs the question: is nature best represented as a series of quanta-like events and objects (bitmap) or as a more dynamic, fluid process (vector)?

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