The visual counterpart to my poem A Falling Through, we are presented with a figure, framed by long theatrical curtains forming a corridor into a bright white light. In the figures offered hands, a garden bird lies motionless. The leminscate symbol, which represents infinity, can be seen here above the figure’s [...]]]>

The visual counterpart to my poem A Falling Through, we are presented with a figure, framed by long theatrical curtains forming a corridor into a bright white light. In the figures offered hands, a garden bird lies motionless. The leminscate symbol, which represents infinity, can be seen here above the figure’s head. The word leminscate is actually Latin for ribbon, a length of which if twisted and fixed together at both ends produces an infinite looping two-dimensional plain.

THE VULNERABILITY OF NATURE IN THE HANDS OF MAN, 2010
Acrylic on Canvas

The cycle of life is perfectly expressed in the iconic sunflower, which produces seeds from which it is later ‘reborn’. In the Sunflower the seeds grow from the centre outwards, turning slightly with the growth of each new cell. This results in a spiral that perfectly matches a mathematical pattern known [...]]]>

The cycle of life is perfectly expressed in the iconic sunflower, which produces seeds from which it is later ‘reborn’. In the Sunflower the seeds grow from the centre outwards, turning slightly with the growth of each new cell. This results in a spiral that perfectly matches a mathematical pattern known as the ‘golden sequence’, which is deeply coded into nature.

THE CYCLIC NATURE OF LIFE, AS EXPRESSED BY A SUNFLOWER, 2010
Acrylic on Canvas

Logic Is Always A Step Behind Nature 2009, Chalk on Canvas

The future is not written. Possibilities exist, but remain possibilities until choices are made. A choice changes the probability of the world around us. Nature is probability.

We are energy conversion machines. Things are never created or destroyed, only changed.

Change. We attempt to simplify nature, to something understandable, something with a purpose [...]]]> The future is not written. Possibilities exist, but remain possibilities until choices are made. A choice changes the probability of the world around us. Nature is probability.

We are energy conversion machines. Things are never created or destroyed, only changed.

Change. We attempt to simplify nature, to something understandable, something with a purpose that involves us. We are not part of the purpose, we are instead a mechanism to achieve that purpose.

We facilitate the evolution of nature. We are an intrinsic part of natures dance, inseparable yet irrelevant to the outcome. Choice is a psychological mechanism we use to delude ourselves of our own importance. We don’t have the right to conquer nature, as it would be ourselves ultimately that we conquer. We are an expression of nature, not a component of nature.

(August 2007)