Machine in the Garden
Five audiovisual works
A collection of five interconnected audiovisual works developed over several years and released as a single body of work.
The collection is concerned with mediation, compression, and the conditions under which meaning persists under technological abundance. Across the works, symbols are not treated as false or obsolete, but as mediated, degraded, and re-contextualised — operating within systems that continue to function even as semantic density thins.
Rather than casting emergent technological systems in oppositional terms, the collection treats them as conditions: environments in which ritual, structure, and transcendence remain operative, though altered. Meaning is not resolved or explained, but inferred through absence, tension, and repetition.
The works are presented as a system rather than a sequence, resisting linear narrative and moral positioning. Together, they attend to belief, time, signal, and culture under acceleration, allowing ambiguity to remain intact.
Lossy Gods
A work exploring meaning under conditions of symbolic hyper-abundance.
Religious imagery and musical material are repeatedly rendered and transformed, while inherited sacred ritual persists. As symbols proliferate, meaning does not disappear, but loses fidelity — becoming ambient rather than authoritative.
The piece attends to meaning as symbols lose resolution, and to the continuation of ritual even as coherence thins.
The Eve of Lockdown
Situated at the threshold of novel collective constraint, the work is concerned with time and space under tension.
Rhythmic and spatial compression converge as movement through the city tightens, holding attention on the interval before systems flex. The piece neither explains nor reflects on the event itself, instead remaining with the condition of anticipation — continuity under strain, before constraint is enacted.
Machine in the Garden
A work exploring mediation, symbolism, and the conditions under which meaning is produced.
Natural, synthetic, and algorithmic elements coexist without synthesis, overlapping rather than resolving. Generated animations render flowers through inferred stylistic systems, treating authorship and representation as probabilistic rather than expressive.
The work inhabits simulation as a condition rather than a critique — a site where transcendence and artifice remain in tension.
Latent Domain
A work concerned with inference, absence, and mediation. Environmental sound and harmonic material interact through masking and subtraction. The work attends to the domain in which meaning is inferred — where structure is sensed through consequence rather than presence.
Ain't Got Time For That
A work concerned with cultural acceleration and the collapse of duration.
Rapidly generated stylistic fragments circulate without accumulation, treating genre as surface material rather than identity and attention as the primary limiting factor.