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This boundary has been the subject of advances in chaos (complexity) theory and string theory. The shapes of space, time and development processes inherent in these theories have influenced these works. The images have been visually ‘genetically engineered’ and animated with cross species qualities.

For example, Rose Breathing on full screen evokes ocean waves or streaming protoplasm, on a small screen it transforms into a tiny beating heart. In Weeping Hemlock the wall sized tree landscape transforms to underwater, intergalactic and subatomic landscapes. It is derived from video images of a weeping hemlock (a cultivated mutant form of hemlock) in a botanic garden. Although it is a 2D image, it retains its video history and is experienced as 3D and animated on the wall.

In “Yawn”(image 4) and “Woman Waking_Paper Dissolve” (image 6) the face of a natural looking yet obviously artificial woman expresses a series of subtle and ambiguous emotions which seem to grow out of her complex inner life, each transformation delicately deforming her seductively soft and supple monochrome gray skin.

All creative and technical work was done entirely by the artist using Alias/Wavefront's Maya (a 3D modeling animation program), Pixar's Renderman, DPS Reality/Velocity (video editing), Sound Forge (sound editing) and Adobe Photoshop.

Image Description : Images 1 and 2- Weeping Hemlock, 450 MB digital file, computer manipulated video images output as inkjet print on white plastic film, 126 X 282 in , 2000. (whole and detail.

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Image description contd – Images 3 and 5 – Rose Breathing, 3D computer animation with stereo soundtrack output as DVD, 34 second continuous loop, play on computer DVD player for computer monitor or LCD or DLP projector, dimensions variable, 2003. ( detail ) – Image 6 -Yawn, 3D computer animation with stereo soundtrack output as DVD, 32 second continuous loop, play on computer DVD player for computer monitor or LCD or DLP projector, dimensions variable, 2006.