Some thoughts on MORPHOGENESIS
Profound complexity emerges via the simplest rules and materials due to the functioning workings of chaos.
Chaos = Vast proliferation of outcomes.
Amongst other universal influences these transformations are the driving force of biological evolution.
I am a ley person on the scientific front, fully aware that I am experiencing the all-encompassing morphogenesis/chaos/evolutionary theories at some good distance from understanding their full nature, meaning and implications. When I am ‘drawing’ and painting whilst focusing on these issues my practice can be likened to that of a poet interpreting and making visible elements from this tsunami of scientific wisdom that falls about us.
My studio practice employs an array of instrumentation / tools that apply particular controls to the dry compounds and paints, to create imagery. From time to time entirely new outcomes present themselves that defy expectations. For example, I have an invented device that casts seven coloured paints through the air, from which one may anticipate a mess of arbitrary splashes, rather than the resulting images of inexplicable complexity and beauty. Here via simple materials and rules the materials are instantly transformed, creating a multitude of different forms and pictorial space. So this poses the question, can these surprising constructs be seen as a visual parallel to the action of chaos or is chaos itself in action here?
Here are some examples of images/ forms that arrived into the studio in a blink of an eye.
Profound complexity emerges via the simplest rules and materials due to the functioning workings of chaos.
Chaos = Vast proliferation of outcomes.
Amongst other universal influences these transformations are the driving force of biological evolution.
I am a ley person on the scientific front, fully aware that I am experiencing the all-encompassing morphogenesis/chaos/evolutionary theories at some good distance from understanding their full nature, meaning and implications. When I am ‘drawing’ and painting whilst focusing on these issues my practice can be likened to that of a poet interpreting and making visible elements from this tsunami of scientific wisdom that falls about us.
My studio practice employs an array of instrumentation / tools that apply particular controls to the dry compounds and paints, to create imagery. From time to time entirely new outcomes present themselves that defy expectations. For example, I have an invented device that casts seven coloured paints through the air, from which one may anticipate a mess of arbitrary splashes, rather than the resulting images of inexplicable complexity and beauty. Here via simple materials and rules the materials are instantly transformed, creating a multitude of different forms and pictorial space. So this poses the question, can these surprising constructs be seen as a visual parallel to the action of chaos or is chaos itself in action here?
Here are some examples of images/ forms that arrived into the studio in a blink of an eye.
