My practice researches formal repetition throughout structures, textual and architectural. I have studied novels through the destructive collage of their typescript-drafts, framing shards of text with a thickly- painted portrait oval: a baroque form echoed in the windows of an 18th Century Mansion House. What interests me is the 'irrational' in triangular steelwork, suspending an undulating roof into the horizon or the surfaces of dwellings punctured with apertures. This is 'architectural thought' at work, inscribing its program onto the fabric of a building using articulated sequences through space. Architecture is a written thing. The structural unconscious is the 'intentionlessness' of this thought when cut from its narrative program.
My practice is selective in the parts of an edifice it places outside programmatic constraints and into making. My paintings are objects generated from the practicalities of physically resolving materials: opening, closing and joining geometries and lacunae; playing with notions of origin from a localized (immanent), non-site (intentionality). A place structural thinking is irresistibly drawn to; 'haunted' by a presence that is eternally absent.
