Beginnings
At the outset of 2005, I received a Page-A-Day Mandala calendar. Throughout the year, as each day came to an end, I found it difficult to crumple up the beautiful pages and consign their inspiration to the trashcan. At year’s end, I took the images haphazardly stacked on my bookshelf and purposefully, even painstakingly, explored how I could perpetuate their power in the form of something entirely new. When I took out my scissors and made my first cut, I set out on a journey which to this day surprises me with its radical fertility. Over the next few years, I not only explored various approaches to the production and application of Mandala-like images, but I looked outside the safety of such traditional compositions to develop the experimental technique of fractal collage. Generating my own fractals immediately gave me greater control and freedom over the pieces and expanded the potentialities of their reach. Moreover, by varying the elemental cuts and colors, I maintained the characteristic radiation of a Mandala while injecting the displaced center of a fractal. To put the technique most simply, I generate, Photoshop, print, cut, and adhere intricate designs onto a canvas to create at once heady and interactive works of art.