Viewer-ship – a ship from which to view

My work weaves together neuro-perception (how the chemistry and physiology of the body effects how we see), folk and indigenous pharmacology (mysticism and medicine) and optical hybrids of abstraction and figuration.

Spaces are constructed for synesthetic practice and play – there is a necessity to exclude the view of the external world to concentrate the activities of the mind. Smell and taste summons poisonous or antidotal travel where natural and synthetic are indistinguishable. Constructed realms are embedded with hidden space packed with inner and outer potentials, seeking and offering fulfillment.

I revisit the architectures I have shaped and re-shapen, a cyclical mode of transformation. Optical movement designates a perceptually located duration of play. Within fields of black and white, oppositions break down to many shades of grey. Hierarchal relationships are de-stabilized through reversals of figure/ground. What we think we know about a form departs from our experience of it. Constructs offer a break from the literal to examine structures that breath out from the drawing surface and encompass the body in evocative space.