4. I use the sooty carbon trace left from the flame of a
candle to make smoke drawings.
In the series ‘carbon based forms’ a parallel is drawn
between carbon, often called the ‘backbone of life’ and
origami.
7. In both carbon and origami the evolution of life or form starts with
the same building block of an atom or fold.
These follow a pattern of repetition, addition and revision to
create the architecture of remarkably complex objects.
14. What excites me about the images is they are
made with some of the things necessary to life:
light, heat and carbon in the forms of soot and
graphite.
17. The following sequence is a progression from laser cut
board to finished piece.
I use 5mm Canson conservation board, the laser allows me
to cut shapes with an intricacy I could not do by hand.
18.
19. Pieces are then separated out into a ‘jigsaw’ there can be
over sixty separate sections to each construction.
36. The accuracy and repetition of laser cutting has also
allowed me to be more experimental.
The following two works were made from the same pattern
cut twice. The second piece was then rearranged to make
a different piece.