I believe we can find a life of spirituality in technology, which both connects and disconnects us as it shapes our lives. The technologies we build create points of interconnectivity that could help us become more whole.
With a background in color field painting, I use digital tools to explore the effects of the Information Age on society. Influenced by Carl Jung and mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Benoit Mandelbrot, I seek universal patterns between systems. Despite the differences that fragment our world, exacerbated and recapitulated by digital media, we also share modes of communication, symbols, gestures, and geometries, and these could help us understand our evolution in a data-saturated world.
Using computer data and geometry, I look to nature for how patterns emerge from chaos. I aspire to work from a meditative space and reconnect with nature's teachings, which would have a reverberating impact in my quest to reflect the quiet solace that rises from the pool of chaotic data in contemporary life. In a recent series, my laser-cut drawings convey the interaction between hand and computer with forms generated by corrupted computer data. This is part of my continued work reinterpreting data line by line, as if translating from one language to a new abstract linguistic structure. I look for meaning by decomposing information to basic units: data point, pixel, byte, and language, discovering the source and rebuilding into simple forms.
Eventually, we may create rituals around the technologies that layer our lives and thus better negotiate our synthesis. I believe that my role as an abstract geometric artist is to look at life's basic forms and explore models for how we are built and where we are going. As we stare time and again into the pattern points of the dark skies, we activate information systems from the past and present, rearticulating our relationship with the universe and affecting what's to come.