I am currently exploring new-age cults that fuse religion and science into narratives for a post-fact world in which, as Nietzsche foretold, “God is dead, and we have killed him”.
As our reality moves closer to the science fictional ones that inspired me as a child, certain influences bare great relevance to my work: the uncertain realities of Phillip K.Dick and myriad sci-fi writers, the activities of Scientologists, the creep of Scientism (and its twin, Populism).
As such I work across a range of media, in written form, pseudo- schematic drawing, sculpture, and image based work.
My visual language speaks of a modern spirituality, born of a strange union of the empirical and unprovable, taking the form of lectern-altarpiece hybrids, totemic piles and other sculptural curios, using industrial materials, mundane hardware-shop fittings, varieties of fixing tape, and various metals.
A recurrent interest for me is how simple repetitions of shapes, forms, lines, and symbols can combine to create a work that is more than the sum of its parts; how a relatively simple drawing translates into a vastly more complicated three dimensional form.
This is known as emergence, and I am fascinated by it.
Ultimate, I am weaving narrative frivolity, an awareness of materiality, and a degree of randomness all to the end of gleefully pursuing the death of the meta-narrative down the rabbit warren of incoherence and uncertainty.