SYSTEMS
This ongoing project is an exploration of the idea that systems are the basic pattern of organization of all living organisms.
Cartesian linear and individualistic thinking is now at breaking point and is being superceded by systems thinking. Rather than focus on objects we now are in an age of connectivity, of networks and relationship. Equations are replaced by patterns, everything is in process and flux and affected by everything else.
In these images I utilise natural forms but there is abstraction and ambiguity, so a metaphor referencing all systems is implied, from the microcosm to the macrocosm.
Systems VIII
Systems V - Transition zones
Recent science has observed synchronized electrical activity in an area just behind the root tip called the “transition zone” which may be the locus of the “root brain” first proposed by Darwin. The idea remains unproved and controversial.
Plants may be exchanging signals in a network, the way that intelligence emerges from a network of neurons may not be very different, defining intelligence as the ability to respond in optimal ways to the challenges presented by one’s environment and circumstances.
Systems VI
Systems VII
Systems IV - Linear breaking point
Winner: Collage & Digital manipulation Pollux Awards 2019
Systems III - The pulse
Shortlisted: Non-Commissioned Object
Association of Photographers Awards 2017
Nominee: Abstract Spider B&W Awards 2017
Underworld I
Underworld II
Underworld III
UNDERWORLD
"Nature may seem chaotic, but every element is part of a symbiotic, unified system. In this series I explore a tiny self-regulating universe."
Shortlisted: Non-Commissioned Environment - Series
Association of Photographers Awards 2015
Shown at Retina Festival 2016
Shown in New York Art Week 2017Winner:
Nature - Series Pollux Awards 2019Underworld images merged into a video