The Bodily Fluids: Plastic Paintings Series of digital photographs was shot using artificial light, but using the same plastic pieces as the Hanlan's Point Series. The change in lighting conditions significantly alters the appearance of the forms giving them an appearance of bodily fluids and internal origins.
This body of work evolved intuitively out of a desire to challenge painting and affirm its adaptability, by extending it beyond the two-dimensional surface out into the world. It incorporates painting, installation, land art, photography and video. I am excited by the idea of spatial and formless paintings that can be transformed by their environment. I see this body of work as a physical manifestation of my search for a way of understanding the world. This has lead me to the philosophy of Naturalism: the view all phenomena can be explained through study of the natural world rather than resorting to supernatural explanations. This affirms a sense of wonder and poetry in nature and science. Culture is nature, as opposed to being somehow separate, or driven by some outside spiritual force.