These works are part of a suite of drawings that present a reworking of natural history images surrounded by the data points and networks that are currently drivers of biodiversity loss and or the result of the impact of human activity on the natural world.

The animals appear in isolation, with graphic motives floating and surrounding the creatures. The various networks displayed range from, artificial intelligence, social media algorithms, networks of dark money and diagrams of the mechanisms of social and biomass collapse. The designs are rendered in fluorescent paint, at times on the verso side of the duralar that creates a hidden or buried affect or alternatively on the surface where their dramatic color sends an alarm or warning signal. The animals depicted are amphibians and birds both of which are experiencing rapid declines and the direct affects of climate change and anthropogenic influences.

I am interested in the idea of how to render the seemingly invisible forces that surround us and yet play and shape much of our world and continue to possibly re engineer what we perceive in the natural order. Data is around us all at all times now and we are all being reduced to data sets to be mined, manipulated, packaged and eventually sold. The natural world reduced to externalities or random disconnected floating data points. These pieces present a record of the traces of these networks and their impending interconnection to many species.

Lastly the title “Tektology” comes from a term coined by Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian medical researcher, philosopher and economist who developed a systems theory. The theory being that to clarify the modes of organization that are perceived to exist in nature and human activity it must generalize and systematize these modes. In addition explain them, and propose abstract schemes of tendencies and laws. It is an attempt to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and non living systems. A totality of connections and interplay of all systems.