ENTRY DESCRIPTION
My INTERFACE series is a study of a transformative moment in our human development. It is the first time that we have seen the digital world like this. It captures the complicated space between our human selves and the digital universe that is becoming an extension of the self. By photographically capturing the surfaces of digital interactive touchscreen devices, a world of fascinating tension is revealed. As we navigate the constantly expanding digital macrocosm at our fingertips we not only leave a digital trail, but we also leave a primal, visceral one as we tap, slide and swipe our way through the endless stream of information and online experiences available to us. The pictures reveal an organic trace of desire, a shimmering-shoal of marks and patterns reminiscent of the primordial soup from which early life emerged, at once microscopic and galactic. Despite the precision of the strict, mathematical 1's and 0's of the digital language, we remain deeply primitive and organic with all the compulsive needs and desires that make us an integral and chaotic part of the natural world even while we aspire to the rational, the abstract and the ideal. This is the human/nature tension, our struggle for humanity.

They also, in their mysterious abstraction and bottomless black backgrounds, give rise to surrealist fantasy, compared by one viewer to the Noir drawings of the Symbolist Odilon Redon.

Altogether a forensic map of our desires, these images capture our continuing evolution at this extraordinary digital moment.

AUTHOR
Originally from the small British island of Jersey, I studied fine art and photography in London for 4 years. After that I moved to Paris and then later New York where I have to this day worked as an artist, designer and photographer, both within the gallery scene and the advertising world.

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