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To promote my online exhibition ‘A Low Resolution Resonance’ at thewrong.tv I'm posting some loops of my work from the last 10 years.

This loop is from States (2014). Although I don’t remember a great about making it, I can see many elements from previous works such as Describing a Space and future pieces such as Austerity Cycle, present in it. During this period I would create much of the video material in my Tachyons+ video synth, isolate any textures I found interesting then composite them in After Effects to create a tableu, generally without any traditional narrative arc.

I’m not a story teller, so I find the question of how to temporally construct an animation a challenge. I would often use a kind of entropic framework in which to place the work. That is, over time slowly build up a series of images, allow them to exist and interact for a period, then slowly begin to deconstruct them. I was also fascinated with the idea of constructing a 3D image in 2D space which I think is why I chose to make the image slowly recede. 

In its composition the work tries to illustrate the idea of a chain of information or perception filters, something I later took into work such as Figure Study II in an attempt to describe how the mind and external spaces interact.

Rounding up my week promoting ‘A Low Resolution Resonance’. This work is called Figure Studies (2016). After some time ignoring the figure in my work, this was an early experiment in addressing how to illustrate it. Although I often cite the painting Petra Im Rosenhag by David Jones as an initial influence. During the period of making Figure Studies, I was looking at Middle Eastern traditional dress and the sovereign veils and jewellery of Tunisia as a way of disrupting the figurative image.

Some traditional dress I found particularly interesting. Often it allows for a recognisable silhouette of the figure, whilst at the same time highlighting a non corporeal space of sound, gesture and ideally, thought, which exists around the form. The space around the body and our interaction with it, is central to my current interest in working figuratively. 

To promote my online exhibition A Low Resolution Resonance at thewrong.tv 

I'm posting some loops of my work from the last 10 years.

This loop comes from Building on a Detail (2015). It was made during a long period experimenting with strobing colours and images. The idea initially stemmed from reading about superposition (Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene) which is a principle in physics which suggests that small objects can exist in multiple states until measured, at which point the wave function collapses and it’s state is locked. A form of measurement can be observation.

All individual shapes, marks and colours in the work are representative of the   superposition. Each existing as a potential collective image as they appear and interact with one another in their phasing strobe cycles. The overall composition forms (collapses) once the viewer begins to measure one individual image against another.

The imagery was created using an LZX Industries video synthesiser and an Archer video processor which had been hacked by Logan Owlbeemoth at Tachyons+. This allowed me to take advantage of the rich, saturated colour and mark making potential of analogue material. Whilst using digital editing to position frames with exact precision.

You can see the work online at the excellent thewrong.tv

A big thankyou to @davidquilesguillo at @thewrong.tv for inviting me and also hosting the exhibition.