This triptych plays with the idea of fructose as a visual state - the parallels of desire, pleasure and hollowness both manufactured sugar and mass imagery contain.

Fructose embraces a maximalist aesthetic - a sickly eye candy that illustrates contemporary culture as excessive. It aestheticises the conditions of over-saturation through dense optical fields and micro-doses of imagery, contrasting commercial graphics with idiosyncratic nuance and intricate detail. This hybridisation of states embraces the visual detritus existing between culture and art - questioning the extent that mass media and saturated imagery collapse the boundaries between commercial and fine art.

Throughout the series, each piece metabolises culture in different ways - From the rich chromatic saturation of popular culture, into economical corporate hierarchies, to sprawling botanical spreads into the technological, occultist counter cultural realm. Collectively, this series articulates a cycle of destabilised excess manifested in rich, toxic colour and accumulated stimuli - mirroring a culture conditioned to consume hollow sweetness.

FRUCTOSE

Kaleidoscopic Bloom, 2022, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker, Ink on Paper,Economic Boom, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker and Ink on Paper, 420 x 297mm 420 x 297mm

Economic Boom, 2023, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker and Ink on Paper, 420 x 297mm