20 Knot Winds is a body of work that explores the ever-shifting nature of perception through evolving concepts, compositions, and colour fields. Each piece invites the viewer to reflect on the illusion of consistency in the world around us, encouraging a deeper engagement with the transient and the mutable.
A key medium in this series is the reflective hologram, chosen for its dynamic, spectral qualities. Its ability to shift in appearance with light and movement aligns with my ongoing investigation into change, motion, and multiplicity. I’ve long felt that representing the world through static imagery is inherently incomplete—like telling a story without an ending. My aim is to create works that expand the possibilities of visual storytelling, capturing more than a singular, fixed perspective.
Although not directly influenced by them, I find inspiration in the ethos of the Futurists, a movement spearheaded by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The Futurists rejected the static traditions of the past, celebrating energy, speed, technology, and transformation. Their ideas of simultaneous vision—merging multiple viewpoints into one—and simultaneity—rendering movement by revealing various stages of motion at once—resonate with my own pursuit of visual complexity.
Artists such as Giacomo Balla, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Marcel Duchamp engaged with similar ideas, particularly through their explorations of Cubism and dynamic form. Like them, I am drawn to the challenge of expressing movement, transformation, and the layering of time within a two-dimensional field.
Ultimately, 20 Knot Winds seeks to evoke a sense of flux—works that are not fixed in meaning or form, but that shift, morph, and evolve in dialogue with the viewer’s gaze.
Click… Click… Click…! Material – reflective hologram and mixed media on panel. Size 2420mm x 2420mm (8’ x 8’ approx.) Diptych
‘Esso Refinery, Westernport” Reflective hologram, gold & mixed media. 2420mm x 1220mm on Panel
I kiss the water you walk on …. Gale – Reflective hologram & mixed media on synthetic paper – 1080mm x 1330mm
“Transformation of wind into water” reflective hologram & mixed media on synthetic paper – 1330mm x 1080mm