This body of work was produced while at the Canberra School of Art as part of the graduation show.

These paintings were the result of an investigation into pictorial figure ground relationships, incorporating an image into a kind of expansive topographical landscape. Exploring a kind of holographic relationship between macro and micro environments and the way patterns randomly expand and mutate in nature.

Some of these works also question the way iconic imagery is read within mass media and popular culture. There is a juxtaposition of traditional iconic images and a tacky environment. These paintings also question and challenge traditional craft based practice (eg painting). They incorporate advertising images from popular culture visually interlaced with traditional geometric patterns with Greek origins.

This is a reinterpretation of the meditative and devotional use of patterns in traditional culture. A kind of a theosophical synthesis between western image based popular culture and traditional non representative geometric patterns as used in Islamic art.