2D WORK

This work is an observation of human’s desire for perfection.

People desperately want perfection. They need things to be just so. The front door can’t squeak, the fit always has to be right, life’s expectations should always be packaged to be neat and tidy, tidy and neat.

Is this right?  Maybe it’s a little uptight? Does it have to be this way? Isn’t perfection a false narrative. Life is better when it’s a bit messy, it should feel a little random, there can be a few cracks. Isn’t this what makes it real, less restrictive and more fun. 

Life can be perfect with imperfections. It all depends on your viewpoint. 

This work represents this simple philosophy. I want to show you that beauty can be imperfect. The circle represents perfection but how it is constructed is imperfect. The splash as the paint mixes, the randomness of its fall on the page, the twisted multiple layers of application, is all imperfect, yet it’s all very intentionally placed within the perfect overriding constraints of the circle.

Perfect, imperfection

3D WORK

The work is a study on human disregard of the obvious.

Nobody takes time to look, we’re all too busy to see. To self absorbed. To involved in our own promotion to see what is right before our eyes. We’ve disassociated ourselves from what is real. More importantly, we’ve severed our connection to nature. People don’t care. We’re unable to see or we choose not to. We’re oblivious. 

My work highlights what we’re missing. The aim is to show you what you should be looking at. Wrapping ourselves in concrete is missing the point. Human beings should be at one with nature. We should feel the breeze, smell the grass, and see the forest. We’re collectively all off the mark. I have taken time to stop and absorb the real life that we choose to ignore.  I have pulled natural elements out to highlight their beauty, their ingenuity and their brilliance.  I have identified inspiring patterns and textures and have recreated them playing with scale to distort perception and bring nature to a position of prominence, with the intent of making the unseen noticeable again.