abstraction | exploration | variation
Attrition System is an abstract art project exploring images based on photographic textures. Working in sequences derived from discrete sets of textures, each image is developed via a process of visual erosion, or attrition.
More or less confined to home during the covid lockdowns, I collected photos of visual textures around the house and garden. And without a commute at the start and end of the working day, I spent that time making these - a quiet, almost meditative time, exploring abstraction through the layering of images. This work has since expanded, moving away from the consciously quiet, ambient atmosphere of the initial sequences into more rugged territory. Each sequence is built largely upon discrete sets of source material collected around specific locations or events, most recently during work at sea.
They are a world away from my usual work with traditional analog techniques, carefully observed drawings, and representational imagery, and so, for now, remain anonymous.