I am fascinated by the aesthetics of signs and symbols and their power to communicate information; to instruct, guide, prevent, and visually control people to act in a certain manner.
This project brings together various artistic processes such as visual poetry, assemblage, painting and collage. It touches on my interest in the use of visual language and coded signs as a means of communication. The works combine elements of street signs, barcodes, decorative patterns, mark-making, text etc. into singular abstract pieces. Materials used are: oil paint, recycled wood, toys, paper, sand, photographs, stationary, etc.
"Figurations" deals with ambiguous figures performing in seemingly familiar environments with cultural accessories.
“Urban Allusions” addresses social inequalities delving into the subtle relationships between humanity, sports, and commercialism.
“Vehicular” contemplates urban imagery. Featured are wrecked automobiles, commercial/military aircrafts, and psychological portraits. These paintings explore the cycles of advanced technology and its vulnerabilities.
“Heads” references the human head as the seat of thought and the mind’s ability to handle multiple ideas simultaneously. In order to visually represent this, I have painted these heads metaphorically to mimic robots, traditional African sculptural forms, and tubular machines.
“Redcoats/Soldiers” refers to the history of colonialism using military uniforms as predominant reference.
“Layers” addresses multiple pictorial interpretations of violence, exploring the subjectivity of events, separated by time and space but subliminally interrelated. The project gathers in visual form the spectacle of information, knowledge and tragedy using painting, drawing and collage.
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‘Fragments’ explores the eventuality between violence and reconciliation, possibilities of shifting tensions from tragic to recreational imagery.
“Social Predation” uses painterly gestures to explore predatory animals, human body parts and man-made objects to address cultural and global conflicts.
Homage to dead trees, once oxygen progenitors.
Multiple pegs emitting pathways to the spiritual unknown.
Yellow stakes like acupuncture needles
Channel towards the sun, beyond this place
Through decomposition to an ethereal silence.
A generic interpretation of crime statistics using color-coded dots to indicate various crimes in imaginary locations.
