Less is more

Greatly reducing a digital image in size, transforming the shape of the displayed colour information, then reducing the original colour information within that shape to a single colour provides the viewer with a whole new experience. Or is it? In a sense, it's like returning to the early days of low resolution digital photography where modern-day hyperrealist detail was just a dream. But doesn't such a rudimentary pointillist image (created with an app called 'LED Photo') invite us to imagine more? I much prefer the texture, rawness and tactility of an image in which one can indeed see the underlying pixels—like dabs of paint on a canvas.

On synchronicity

Mary and I can best be described as synchronous souls: we often have both been working, at different ends of the country, in isolation, on similar themes, without having communicated with one another. In Jungian parlance, such synchronicity is "a meaningful coincidence that has a low probability of being a random or chance event." Somehow, creative forces seek each other out and meet in some shared, unknown space to engage in a creative exchange.

Holey clogs

We get there one short step at a time, floating lightly above the grit of earthly duties and encumbrances, so as not to get too grounded...

Wood nymph kodama

After a tortuous struggle, her head pierces through the skin of the white bark, and her eyes gleam as she witnesses for the first time ever the hypnotic lights in the borealis sky.

Mary and tablet

An ethereal impression as Mary works at her digital tablet, editing the virtual pages of her Paleozoic portfolio and journal. Time is suspended and the night air is charged with energy.

Image under glass

Doodling on my iPod Touch with my fingers, I can't help but feel a direct gestural and visceral connection with the medium. Almost like those Chinese paintings done behind glass.

First thoughts

First impressions can be fleeting or they can linger; it simply depends on how impressive they were to you and how long you want to hold onto them.

What is zuihitsu?

Zuihitsu is a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author's surroundings. The name is derived from two Kanjis meaning to follow and brush, and thus works of the genre should be considered not as traditionally planned literary pieces but rather as casual or random jottings down of thought by their authors.

[Wikipedia]