F V A C Series
The 114 ink drawings of the ongoing series Floral Veins and Conduits (FVAC), first started in 2006. These drawings depict highly detailed renderings based on endangered and extinct plants found online and, in the tradition of botanical studies and Albrecht Dürer’s engravings, they question evolution’s effect on flora, biology, and physics. Bound by rope, bent to abnormal shapes, and yet surviving, the plants create alignments—built by Versus leaving clues for Polygone to find each other. Displayed collectively in a large composition is inspired by the Vedic metaphor of “interpenetration,” to compose an immersive scene full of encoded vegetable minutia.
All drawings are present day to 2006, ink and graphite on paper, 9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches.
After the Woods centers on the reunion of a young man and woman after a separation of 1000 years. Willed into existence by a conscious landscape that has rediscovered the code embedded within it, the man becomes a Knight adorned in armor while the woman is transformed into a Princess who over time evolves into a spaceship. While her metamorphosis represents the advancement of artificial intelligence his transformation triggers the evolution and expansion of the natural landscape. The Knight’s quest for the Princess leads him towards a realization and releasing code, disseminating consciousness like a form of alchemy throughout his immediate environment. The forest grows and becomes populated by fantastical creatures creating a new magical eco-system through which technology and nature are combined.