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A Hidden Archive: A Manifesto
2015
Since 1988, my work has occupied a modest space at the convergence of painting, art history, digital culture, and the philosophy of technology. I have not sought immediate acclaim, but to observe the slow unfolding of ideas - a process more akin to careful discovery rather than rapid dissemination.
My studio paintings engage with art history and reflect on the expressive and conceptual possibilities of emerging technologies on our perception of reality. My digital practice is a measured exploration of tradition and transformation, a quiet investigation into how digital frameworks alter the familiar. Intersectionally, analogue and digital languages are examined not simply as a shift in medium, but as a dialectic in which the two domains challenge and reshape each other. The studio output - ranging from oil paintings, site-specific installations, digital images and animations to inkjet prints on a variety of media - is a record of these ongoing experiments.
Inspired by Duchamp and his use of delay and low output, I have consciously chosen a path of strategic withdrawal from the art market. From 1994 to 2015, my digital work was stored on external hard drives, conceived of as an unpublished reserve, conceptually resistant to exhibition. This period was not an act of isolation from the art world but a measured retreat to maintain control over the unfolding process of my practice. In this way I avoided the distractions and distortions of market forces, preserving the essential ideas in a state of ontological recursivity and iteration.
Today, as these works gradually emerge, they do so as a curated archive - anachronistic body of work that remains largely private and rarely seen, yet steadily retains its conceptual integrity. There is no ostentation in this slow unveiling, only the quiet satisfaction of allowing ideas to unfold on their own terms.
This archive is not a monument to personal achievement, but a modest record of an unhurried inquiry into the nature of art. It reflects a commitment to letting the work speak for itself - a testament to a practice that values restraint, reflection, and the deliberate unfolding of creative possibility.