ARTIFACTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Artifacts of Consciousness is a series of material investigations into the emergence of form within constrained systems.
Each work begins with a structured field — a grid, a containment, a set of controlled parameters. Within these conditions, pigment, water, gravity, and time interact in ways that cannot be fully predicted or replicated.
The resulting formations are not composed but revealed. They are residues of process — traces of attention meeting matter.
Large-scale macro images isolate these emergent structures, shifting scale and perception. What appears abstract becomes geological, cellular, or cosmic, dissolving the boundary between inner and outer landscapes.
The works function as artifacts: evidence that consciousness, when held in sustained attention, leaves form.
THE SOURCE FIELD
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Method
The works originate as watercolor paintings on paper constructed within a defined grid structure. The grid establishes tension and containment — a field within which material behavior unfolds.
Through controlled application of pigment and water, the surface is activated and then allowed to develop autonomously. No two formations can be recreated, even when parameters remain constant.
Selected areas are then photographed at high resolution. These macro images do not document the painting; they reveal its internal topography. Scale is altered to allow close observation of microstructures normally unseen.
The original painting and the enlarged macro prints are presented together. The painting functions as the generative field. The macro prints function as artifacts extracted from that field.
Artifacts of Consciousness investigate how structure and emergence coexist — and how sustained attention allows form to reveal itself.
