My current text works reveal stuttering thoughts. They bring into the visual world the hesitancy that inhabits our everyday thinking. In my ongoing Uncertainty Series, I give solidity to my own meandering thoughts and indecisions about my art practice.

The final work comprises a number of intertwining sentences produced by following a set of rules loosely based on the Track Changes function in Microsoft Word. This process transforms an almost trivial, troubling thought into a precisely rendered text work that embodies the confident aesthetic normally associated with advertising.

In making these text works, I ask whether the truth can ever reside in a finished text. Is the truth mislaid in the complex process of translating thoughts into words?

These works reflect my interest in the complexity and opacity of inscribed language. I often adopt forms derived from the digital interface.

I have produced text animations, drawings and paintings based on junk digital text and made mock-scientific examinations of an invented, indecipherable language. At other times, I have destroyed mobile phones and documented the smashed and burnt remains. And, I've attempted to draw as an automaton, to experience how it feels to function within a system of tightly defined rules.

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See Artist Newsletter Review by James Hutchinson, May 2006.

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