Ever since I was a kid I’ve enjoyed making collages, playing with tape recorders and taking pictures. Arranging and juxtaposing sounds and images to find hidden meaning, or just plain silliness.
Nowadays, my work is informed by investigations into Chaos and Emergence. Using the tools and lenses of culture and technology, I investigate the emergent order that unfolds at the intersection of my perception, my will, and the physical world.
Since my own philosophy is constantly reformulating, I hope the following randomly generated paradigm will serve as my artist’s statement. To paraphrase Marx(1): These are my principles, if you don’t like them then click here, I have others.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts; individual thoughts are mycelial memes whose individual existence is wholly dependent on their context. “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted”. Life is the product of a universal drive toward complexity, and consciousness is its highest expression. Only the illusion of time separates us from absolute being.
1Groucho that is.
Author Profession: Comedian
Nationality: American
Born: October 2, 1895
Died: August 19, 1977