A Series of One Liners (recto / verso)

A Series of One Liners is part of a larger series of work titled c0de to Home, 2023-ongoing, which began when I started to recall the impact of the colour that I grew-up around in my childhood home. 

In this artwork from the series, I negate the use of colour to work with the term ‘black and white thinking’. A psychologist would refer to this as thinking in absolutes, which can keep an individual from seeing life the way it really is, full of complexity and uncertainty. 

Similar to my Love by Proxy Diagrammatic Drawings, 2020-ongoing, that are also made-up of triangulated patterns, which are drawn while slowly-processing matters of the heart, this artwork is based on a continuous line drawing puzzle, usually made-up of 5 triangles and 10 edges, but here, it is never complete. 

Instead, an unpredictable pattern of lines unfold over time and emerges as a new form of language/code. A form of stuttering information, in flux, in which endless movement and flow does not allow information to fully cohere into singular meanings.

Displaying both sides of the embroidery canvas, I wanted to emphasise that the notion of a home can be a complex thing to figure, if not an elusive thing that can be subject to change.

During the night cycle of the Virtual Reality exhibition We Are Only Partly Real, 2025, the work slowly rotates, turning the series upside down.