Figuratively Speaking

Figuratively Speaking aims to co-mingle the digital and analogue through machine learning and artificial intelligence, critiquing the relevance and cultural significance of painting in a world driven by a proliferation of digital visual culture. The resulting works reflect my fascination in trans-humanism and post-human ideologies evident in the way technology can disrupt and enhance our physiological and sensory structures. This show explores the impacts of scientific and technological advancements on the human condition; the augmentation of our physical bodies a metaphor for the alteration of sensory reception and emotional and cognitive capacities. The biomorphic figures and fragments in the paintings live in a liminal non-space, with no particular time or place. The natural world, the synthetic and the human all converge to form an alternative future in which scientific progression ultimately blends all ecosystems together into a singularity.