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Three years ago I came to the conclusion I should become computer - literate, especially since it was recommended to those with who have a 'high pattern recognition' but no short-term memory like myself. I studied programming and software design which resulted in work based on Entities and Processes and was shown at the Shoreditch Gallery in London and then at Cambridge University, entitled Interface Illusions. I then attended the London Graphics Academy to study design applications.
In the series of ink and acrylic drawings 'Systems Analysis of the Immaculate Conception', 2000, I combine surrealist disorder with computer systems analysis to think out process designs using theoretical subjects. The work throws up various conundrums, for instance, what is the concept of 'God' in terms of systems design. Is he an entity; an object in the real world that applies input, or a process as in "the Will of God?" If the Will of God engineers the process of the making of Eve from Adam's rib, what then of Lilith his first wife? The combining of the investigation with automatic drawing triggered from a French dictionary and a Sotheby's auction catalogue brought into the equation chaos theory and intuition which are not subject to the laws of computer theory.
The Interface
Series has continued with iconographic paintings on hardware, Talismans.
I was encouraged in this venture by winning an award for an exhibition I found
about via the Internet, in reality 13,000 miles away from London. Even if computer
theory disproves religious fact there is still a need for people to believe
in a higher force, and because of that belief, proves the disproved does exist.
There is an atavistic need in our technological world to fend off the negative
spirits we feel reside in computers.