DRAWINGS

My drawings explore how scientific discovery and the technologies that extend our senses have allowed us to perceive realities far beyond direct human experience. From distant galaxies to microscopic and quantum phenomena, science opens up worlds that challenge our ability to fully grasp them.

I refer to my ink drawings as scan drawings, a term that speaks to their construction through the raw materials of mark-making: lines, dots, and basic geometric forms. These elements echo the language of data visualisation, diagram, and chart, yet are used here to suggest imagined terrains and abstract systems. My pastel drawings allow me to dive deeply into pure colour and often serve as a vehicle for exploring the digital reality of bits and switches—ones and zeros. These works are created through a subtractive process, with pastel pigment applied and then selectively erased using stencils.

There is a deliberate tension in these drawings: the marks suggest information that feels precise, almost measurable, but ultimately resists full interpretation. This ambiguity reflects the broader challenge of perceiving and representing that which lies beyond our immediate reach. The works become meditations on the gaps between data and understanding, presence and distance, and on the limits of technology in our ongoing search to know more.