Stone circle series:
Statement for Stone circles series: For me, these sacred stone circles unite many of my longstanding interests: geometry; time; the sky; our spiritual connection to the cosmos. These Neolithic burial sites in northern Scotland connected ancient peoples to life, death, and the sky. In this series, circles, squares and grids become meditations on rhythm, form, tone and colour. The universal geometry of the circle and its association with celestial rhythms provides a way for us to connect to our ancestors across time, relating cosmic cycles to our own human cycle of life and death.
Harmonia series:
Statement for After Harmonia series: Inspired by Pythagoras’ circle of fifths, my After Harmonia series presents improvisations on interconnected chords of a circle. After experiencing the mesmerizing audiovisual piece Harmonia, conceived by Christos Hatzis and realized by Bruno Degazio, where visualizations of harmonic chords are presented simultaneously with their audio counterparts, I wanted to create a rougher and more chaotic version in paint on wood panels. During the production of my paintings, the rough sound of the palette knife scraping across the wood was equally important as the visual concept of roughly joining chords in a circle, in contrast to the precision of the audiovisual Harmonia. The resulting works simultaneously in invokes macroscopic scales - like the expanding Universe, or the interior of a star, and microscopic scales - like the interior of a proton, embodying Pythagoras’ notion of the underlying geometrical unity of our Universe.
