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Over the past three years, my work has been concerned with ideas related to such subjects as the resemblnces between electronic man-made systems and naturally occurring biological systems. My work has been strongly influenced by the use of space in compartmented objects, including cells, pigeon-holes and pockets; how they have developed and from what.
Last year, I began to look at the practical use of space and its division together with the process of compartmentalisation as seen in pigeon-holes and other objects.
Later that year, my work became informed by the aesthetics of data graphics, the principles behind the visual representation of data and the link between mathematics and number systems or space systems.
This train of thought has led me to this most recent body of work based on the notion of over-decoration of data graphics which Edward R. Tufte refers to as 'chart-junk' in his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information which has been a great influence on me recently.
In turn, this has led me to investigate the notion of how over-decoration can be used to subvert an information display, and in effect destroy the validity of a data graphic display, distorting the true information passed on to the consumer.
This interest in the 2D representation of information has for me become related/connected to 3D sculptural work in the form of display cabinets in which information can be stored.
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