I try to see all of life as an unfolding singularity - because when I can, I find so much awe in being a part of the play of temporary forms. Intrinsic to my practice is appreciating the sheer immediacy of this life - to yours and mine and all living sentience into the infinite etcetera. I embrace this outlook because - in the disciplines of science, philosophy and art - theory and evidence would suggest there is no permanent separation between things except the temporal illusion of present formality. In these moments of clarity, there is the synthesis of creation and a peaceful balance.

And yet, in the course of my cultivated daily mental endeavours, through the opportunity of my specific businesses and humanistic details, I find I have myself forming abstract and subjective boundaries and conditional relationships with all manner of physical things, processes and circumstances, and other humans beings. 

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To understand and to thrive, I determine spectrums between near and far; a timeframe between fast and slow; values between love and apathy and a range of criteria between pleasing and offensive - I break reality into customised pieces almost all of the time. I find myself dividing the nature of being constantly - and I am one of 9 billion simultaneously specific abstractors in a known framework of indeterminate cosmic magnitude.

The enthralling spectacle of this and that - the dualities, becomes a challenging puzzle when actively taking part (as we are). And so, for now, it would appear unavoidable to invent sets of conditions - the uncensored library of our thoughts and memories, the spectrum of our emotional feelings and fears, subjective determinations of all kinds including our values and our reactions to their violation combine to forge unique pieces of the mass puzzle. And the captivating conditions of physicality that we share with each other and the "outside' world continue to intrigue me.

I believe a key to unlocking the "door to a cluster of puzzles" is to remember that we are parts connected to a world that is also built on a composition of abstract and temporal formations; space, energy, matter and time. We are not separate from what surround us, we are created and largely determined by it (perhaps entirely). It is part of the thrill, satisfaction and enjoyment (as well as the resolution) of a paradox to indulge the simultaneous existence of contradictory circumstances. And so THROUGH becoming an observer of external abstractions, the gradual tendency towards 'disorder', and the effects of natural forces upon our aspirations for permanent states of 'selfhood' - we find ways of seeing that the nature of reality itself is endlessly and harmoniously abstract. And there are also ways of recognising and embracing mental and emotional 'compositions' as just those; frameworks and selections on a cerebral continuum that never remain the same; they extend into the spiralling circle of the ever-present moment. 

I also believe there is a balance and harmonious equilibrium within all of natural reality, inclusive of ourselves as human aspects of it. It may often seem difficult to see or to understand, as it is not a balance defined by human terms alone, but by the qualities of existing as a conscious expression of the entire universe. It is simultaneously abstract and concrete, and we are already completely within it - it is here, in clarity at all times, in every fragment and every form - even the biological form of our own minds. The concept of this principle has been called many things - the Dao, the Way, The Spirit, Nature, God, the Nameless and so forth.

I understand that my concepts, my observations, the process of creation and the nature of my practice do not originate with me. I borrow them and I carry them, I work with them like old tools on worn surfaces - and often I play with them aimlessly.  The learnings and the guidance I have been given in my time exploring so far, are like items lent from a regional museum as old the world - I do not find value in owning them as much as using, enjoying and and sharing them. To me, there is no such thing as self without other, there would be not a single person, without the conditions of earth, nothing would be the same - and so I cannot logically extricate myself from the consequences of everyone and everything as a sum-total. Trying to define self will is difficult, I would prefer to call it inherent effect.

At the present time, I am interested in challenging the habitual and subliminal urges to separate 'being human' from being a part of the 'greater world'.  I have formed the sense that there isn't a tangible or permanent separation at all; just a mental vessel in which we may choose to float downstream or sail against the currents.  I do what I am doing because it provides me a sense of peace and it gives me such happiness to share my waypoints to this bliss with others. I'm fascinated by being in a state of pure observation; to cast over the play of forms within all phenomena and to document with a sort of dancing awe.  I like to hold with subjects in such clear and quiet moments and see the changing harmonies, infinite variations, and temporal flux - even in domestic scenes of simple and mundane decay.   What I am doing is a combination of curiosity, exploration and record keeping. And I hope sharing my markers / records / artefacts / abstractions reminds people to see the temporal immortality of it all and to float downstream. After all, from 'my perspective', we are all beautiful elements : all water in the same stream, appreciating how it feels to be this particular vessel (or waking ripple) for now.

For the purpose of accessibility and reference, I place collections of my photographs and drawings into some categories. Individual works are identified by a number within each category. The number does not represent the order that the work was created or intended to be displayed.  As more photographs and drawings are taken and created, the collections continue to grow fluidly.

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