FIELDWORKS is a selection of intaglio prints and sculptures based on a close reading of the current theories of loop quantum gravity and an on-going exploration at the intersection of phenomenological philosophy, dark ecology, and quantum mechanics.

Produced by applying pigment to paper at high pressure with chemically etched metal plates – each print appears to be a continuous colour field but on closer inspection they somehow condense and open out into discretely quantised spectral lines .

Emerging from the apparently stochastic filigree  is a complex geometry generated by a four-way symmetry that creates a central point while conveying a sense of the sacred, similar to a mandala or a form of religio-spiritual symbolism, that hints at the similarities between Buddhist philosophy and the quantum mechanical world view – the equations of which predict the contents of the periodic table of elements and provide compelling scientific proof that the nature of reality is indeed a constant flux of interacting fields of energy suggesting a profoundly relational underlying unity of all things.  

This show is the latest in a series of artistic investigations into our vibrant materiality – and an attempt at not simply representing the nature of reality at the finest granular scale available to us but (as with the so called “redox reaction” central to the etching process – which sees an exchange of electrons from copper sulphate and zinc) it is an engagement with materiality at the quantum level.