In mathematics, "recursion" is the repeated application of the same rule to a process. This and other algorithmic structures were useful to me in exploring the potential of emergent processes in drawing. These drawings explored the relationship between simplicity and complexity in visual information and generated abstraction in a hybridized, perception - based way. I began with a satellite image of a place I once called home, and applied two simple rules in order to transform it: a transformation of scale, and a transformation of material. The application of simple rule-based processes to the image of this former home radically transformed it, making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.


photo credit: Stephen Petegorsky