Photography: Lucy London McDonald

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This body of work is a conversation with technology on the abstraction of meaning, information and identity in the Information Age. Akin to a graffiti artist, expressive gestures and mark-making as an act of disruption to challenge digital technology and find ruptures in its systems that reveal hiccups in the programming of human life. The works have all been made from a layered process combining gestural abstract painting and AI-generated imagery. Each work begins with an abstract painting that is scanned and uploaded onto an AI-generative imaging software. The AI is then prompted with gibberish as another form of abstract mark-making, asking the software to respond to the painting to build up layers of generated content through multiple layers of abstraction. Using both physical painting and various mechanic and printing processes, such as laser-cutting, UV printing, lighting and expanded painting, the end results are hybrid works that blur the lines between paint and digital, object and image, hand-made and automated.