CHAOS AND ORDER

My academic background in mathematics and science offers a broad source of inspiration for my artwork. My particular interests lay both in nature and modular structures. Through this work I have explored the desire to better understand my surroundings, in both the physical and the metaphysical sense, and consider each piece created to be a study or experiment towards that journey.

In response to recent personal events, the theme to this body of work has responded to the phenomena of chaos and order. Order seems intrinsic to human life, yet the unpredictability of chaos penetrates its systems and design. We cannot control our own destinies, nor can we control the outcomes of those around us whose lives may affect chaos and disorder to our own.

Compelled to work with new mediums such as fire and smoke – elements that are volatile and chaotic, I explore the creative extent of fluid dynamics: ‘the physics of water’. This experimentation in my process and the use of repeating shapes and patterns has led to a body of work that combines the visual cohesion of these two polar entities: the controlled and disordered.