light painting
2012 – acrylic on canvas – 24″ x 24″

norns
2012 – 6’5″ x 5′ 5″ acrylic on primed, unstretched canvas
tree (stage 3)
2010 – watercolour on Arches 140lb rag paper – 8 1/2″ x 11″

A simple natural algorithm: fill up the space with lines getting thinner as they move outward from the trunk. It is also a reference to veins and arteries – blue is applied over a red base to darken the lines in stage three above. A very rudimentary and early form of natural computing. This would be an example of the first class of methods: “those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem-solving techniques.”
stage 1

stage 2

stage 3

Mycelium
2009 – pen on bond – 8 1/2″ x 11″

Woodcutter Dream
1993 – oil on masonite – 24″ x 24″

NFS
from second year BFA – based on a dream – Roger Waters and Syd Barret were teaching me a Buddhist discipline of wood cutting. This is one of my favorites from school.