My work grew from an interest in the Afrofuturist Music of Sun Ra and his ‘Cosmic Philosophy’. He claimed an alien abduction to Saturn as a consequence he created some strangely beautiful music from beyond, binding myths the cosmos and all kinds of possible realities.
Having experienced the unnerving world of sleep paralysis, I have sought to formulate and develop my own interpretation of what otherworldliness might be.
I work with modular forms, stretching and transforming material properties, looking to accentuate their strengths. Many individual elements are combined incorporating mechanical and organic forms coexisting harmoniously, suggesting resemblances from planetary to molecular.
Although many aspects of the creation process is mathematical and meticulously thought out there’s an element of the unknown using resin with refractions changing compositions and light playing a strong role.
I’m represented by The London Contemporary Art Gallery
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