The Emergent Structure series explores the space between sign and signified: the strange territory in which we recognise that something is communicating before we understand what, if anything, it is saying.
Across the series, marks suggest writing, diagrams, symbols and fragments of an unknown language. They offer no code through which they can be definitively read, yet relationships begin to form between them. Repetition creates emphasis. Proximity suggests connection. A line becomes a boundary; a circle becomes a point of attention. Meaning begins to emerge without understanding the signal itself.
The works grew intuitively, without a predetermined image or system. In that process I became interested in how readily we create meaning from what we encounter, and in what might exist in the space between a thing and our interpretation of it. Rather than resolving that ambiguity, the paintings remain deliberately suspended within it—somewhere between language and gesture, information and noise, structure and uncertainty.
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