My work, across a range of disciplines and media, follows a path, often circuitous and with many digressions, towards an eventual goal, at the limit of n=∞, of the creation and full realisation of a parallel world.
It is a path that began, as many important journeys do, before I even realised that I was on it. An early fascination with maps, with the mathemagical natures of fractal geometry, with narrative poetry, began offering glimpses into this world. Set design, the short story, text-based multiuser environments, and eventually an architectural education, offered me some of the tools to start describing it.
I see glimpses of this world in my dreams. An ongoing, presumably life-long, aspect of my practice involves the specification of these places and spaces through the traditional architectural tools of sketching, draughting, and modelling. As is the language of dreams, places intersect in unexpected and sometimes disorienting ways, some are continually changing, seeking refinements or retrofittings, some are fuzzy, some are outsized, and some simply stop at the edge of the world.
Themes recur. A parking lot at night, on the edge of a forest blinking with fireflies. Towers, or, variations of the archetypical, original tower, the Tower of Babel, built in reaction to the lightning bolt, the original spoken syllable, the Promethean spark of knowledge. (A series of comics, collectively known as Pharology, feature a parallel version of me, a boy who lives in a succession of urban lighthouses.) A flock of small, black birds.
For the foreseeable future, I plan on continuing to explore, classify, and create this world, through writing, painting, drawing, (altered) photography, comics, video, architecture, music, &c.
[Last Update: 2009.12.20]
