HYPHA is the invisible thread, the connective tissue linking everything I make and discover. It takes its name from the fine, branching filaments that form fungal networks beneath the forest floor. In the same way, my paintings, photographs, sculptures and collected objects are not separate works but interconnected parts of a living, generative structure. Each encounter can migrate through materials and processes, returning to the practice as the starting condition for something new.
ATTENTION IS A METHOD
LANDSCAPE IS NOT A VIEW
IT IS A SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIP
MATERIALS HAVE AGENCY
CHANCE IS NOT AN ACCIDENT
A FRAGMENT CAN CONTAIN A LANDSCAPE
SCALE IS UNRELIABLE.
THE OVERLOOKED IS EVIDENCE
MAKING IS A FORM OF NEGOTIATION
NOTHING EXISTS IN ISOLATION
THE WORK DOES NOT ILLUSTRATE THE SYSTEM
THE WORK BECOMES PART OF IT
HYPHA
Notes Towards a Living Practice
Begin with attention.
Look before making.
Notice what has already happened.
Walk. Observe. Photograph. Collect.
Pay attention to what others pass by.
Nothing exists alone.
Every object enters carrying a history.
Materials are never neutral.
Do not erase where things came from.
But allow them to become something else.
Remove context.
Retain memory.Bring unlike things into proximity.
Let observation become speculation.
Do not decide the outcome too quickly.
Allow chance to participate.
Allow materials to resist.
Follow what emerges.
Let each outcome become the condition for another.
Relationships are the work.
Let scale remain unstable.
A shell can be architecture.
A surface can become landscape.
A fragment can contain a world.Do not mistake categories for boundaries.
Living.
Geological.
Human.They coexist, collide, adapt and transform.
Attend to those negotiations.
Do not simplify their differences.
Allow one medium to contaminate another.
Photography can become painting.
Painting can become object.
Object can become architecture.
Architecture can become landscape.Resist hierarchy.
Follow connections.
Accept ambiguity.
Do not explain everything.
Leave room for the viewer.
Meaning can arrive slowly.
The work does not need to resolve.
Return to attention.
Look again.
Something will have changed.