Drawings

Cloud Machines

"Cloud Machines" is a series of mixed-media drawings that push the boundaries of both medium and concept. In these works, I delve into the intersection of nature and technology, imagining a world where mechanical possibilities extend into the natural realm. By juxtaposing the ethereal quality of clouds with the stark, industrial power of machines, I explore the allure and complexities of simplistic solutions to our environmental challenges.
This series serves as an absurdist meditation on the mysterious ways in which human ingenuity interacts with the natural world. I invite viewers to imagine a future where machines can generate, restore, or even create the skies above us—a fusion of the natural and artificial that blurs the lines between the two. Through "Cloud Machines," I aim to challenge our perceptions of what is natural and what is man-made, creating a space where viewers can drift between worlds, much like clouds carried by the wind. This series is an invitation to reflect on the future of our skies and the machines that are already shaping them.

Mining For Sky & Trading Gold For Sky

In 2008, after the global market crash, it seemed like the sky of the Chicken Little stories had really fallen. I did a series of sketches based on the notion that some contrarian urge would lead us to use coal-powered steam-punk technology to solve our financial and ecological problems. For these sketches, I used images of excavators, mining equipment and "steam"-shovels as my starting point. The finished series of drawings Mining for Sky and Trading Gold for Sky came out of these musings.

Black and Gold: The Colour of Money

These drawings are almost non-representative, but I have kept traces of oil pipelines crisscrossing plains of black. I think of the colour black as representing oil. In Canada we are hyper-conscious of oil as a global commodity, which sometimes seems to be the only commodity of value.

Flight & Space

Tumbling wings from Icarus’ doomed flight and crumpled biplanes of the Wright brothers are motifs important in my work. Flight links the earth to the universe, creating a metaphor for our desire to escape our uneasy relationship with this earth. This work focused on the compulsion Western man feels towards Space and what that means for Earth. Heaven and the universe engage our imaginations to a degree that the Earth does not. They push our ideas of time and space, and introduce the idea of infinity, leaving man seemingly constrained on Earth.

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