Floating Worlds series
Floating Worlds series - encompasses drawings spanning from 2011 through to 2018. This work continued my interest in the macrocosm-microcosm schema of ecological/living systems. Underlying the diversity and complexity of ecology is a structure that reflects the operation of fundamental physical and biological processes — patterns of structure that are self-similar can be observed over a wide range of scales. As a visual artist engaged with the physical natural environment, these emergent patterns are particularly compelling and have become a major concentration in my work. This body of work shifts my earlier focus from the biotic to the abiotic. I am interested in the repeating movements and structures of abiotic systems such as air, water and light. Water, for example, reveals similar patterns of movement in both cloud formation in the atmosphere and in stream undercurrents. These patterns repeat on both massive and minute scales. Art and science coincide in this work, as my intent is to create images that oscillate between the objective and the imaginary. I am interested in the visual analogies set up when the subject is detached from definite scale, context, colour and paradigm. For example, imagery suggesting water molecules takes the shape of clouds. The clouds can also be read at once as landscape or as microscopic particles. These drawings are visual reflections of the interconnectedness of natural systems.
