field collection

in a recent interview david hockney pointed out that we see art psychologically. I find this a really useful insight. when i first started working again after a long period of doing other things, these prints were what i produced. i worked and re-worked layers, shifting and modifying transperencies and exploring how one layer can be used to modulate another; following a process of repetitively building then fracturing shapes, looking for something that felt like a captured reality, and yet one i hadn't sensed before; a kind of truth. waves, structures in nature, objects in motion, algorithms, perhaps the transfer of energy from one state to another or the chart of an idea as it is formed in the mind, like an envelope. another cognitive mechanism i refer to is the idea that we symbolise physical properties of natural phenomena and reduce them to simplified representations, formulae and symbols. that sine, square or triangular waves can be visualised using an oscilloscope, or that sound moves through the air by molecular movement are just beautiful ideas to me. i enjoy exploring this language. in mathematics for example, i enjoy that an axis can represent different things; a temporal dimension, such as in musical notation. we live in incredible times, where the line between science fact and science fiction is blurry. the former often stranger than the latter.