Mars Series
All works are made with acrylic paint and pastel chalk on birch ply panels, using a hybrid method of hand and laser.
2016
This body of work was developed while I was an Artist in Residence at Autodesk’s Pier 9, a state of the art advanced manufacturing facility that encourages the use of technology in unconventional ways. With this in mind I collaborated with the latest machines to invent a form of hybrid painting that consider the tension between human and machine art making, while embracing both the precision and the mistakes of the process, viewing each glitch as the machine’s opportunity for creative self-expression. The works created considers the position of humankind at a time in which speculative fictions are becoming technological realities— our machine-aided capabilities expanding the reach of our species in both space and time.
This series references historic and contemporary NASA and ESA images of some of first human/robotic interventions made on Mars.
