At the beginning of the degree I wrote an artist statement outlining the following:

-Each sculpture is a reflection of the kind of world we are living in today. -Functional designs; such as engineering or architecture are perfect as they themselves speak. -Volumes about the reasons for their existence and knowing their stories helps to place them. -Voices for our own human stories which I try to create in my works.

To a degree this statement still stands, but it has evolved and become more in-depth and precise. Ideas about ‘functionality’ have lead me to the cotemporary philosophers of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze about the ‘Rhizomes’ explanation, the concept that an idea is a root which travels horizontally but grows both in development and exploration at the same time explained as the root nods and the stem. The scale of humanistic behaviour, from Functionality: the basic human condition to Abstraction and Aesthetics: the observations of the mind.

The three points I am interested in are:

1.functionality- the machine and it’s programmes, which are created by the human mind but are just basic functions that we have programmed it to perform. By using Industry technology such as PowerPoint programmes to subvert and create art with. Much as a painter will use brushes to apply technique I use the programme. 2.Attribute- with the understanding of what my tools are, the programming of programmes I create works of art on line and using technical tools of computers to manipulate the images into what I want them become, not what they were originally, mirroring is one technique I use often, but as each layer of image is created one by one the mirroring is imperfect. I am looking to artisan, hand make the work on the machine, by manipulating the programmes’ perfectness I am humanising the process of the creation of the artwork. 3.Aesthetic and Abstraction- Finally the work is printed out converted into physical objects, such as projections, books, literature. Further subversions happen when transferred to fabric, alternative materials such as wood, or manufactured using found objects such as sentences that explain the core ideas from newspapers and people to collaborate with.