Mapping source material back onto itself through a self-generative, recursive
process, my work transforms its subjects into a new kind of existence. The images become involved in a language construct such as a grid, while the grid experiences a contextual distortion.

Recombining elements from a given source also entwines the creative act in grounded circumstance, while the art object itself might be something like an embodied process of reflection. The experience can be one that is searching, engaged and dynamic, oscillating somewhere between recognition and wonder.

The source imagery used in some of my most recent work — for example that of war machines and destructive forces — involves the viewer in considerations about a number of levels of appearance, meaning and emotional reaction. The meaning of a creative act is perhaps weighed with its destructive aftermath. An aesthetic reaction plays against an abject reality. Geometric hardness gives way to manual facture as its genesis. In all of this, it is hoped that questions about what we do and what it does to us — the recursive processes of human activity — can reverberate.