Lucy Mackintosh Gallery
Lausanne
2009
... "A single particle is hanging in space. It appears to be searching for stability but without finding it. It is lonely for a while, or at least until another individual suddenly emerges. They are about to accidently meet, link up together to create a new structure, a new shape, possibly even a new life form. It may be more or less stable: it may survive for a while, or quickly break apart. We don't know yet. But regardless, this could be a some sort of a beginning, or maybe it is the end?"...
Offspring presents a possible destiny of a single particle. It is inspired in part by the concept of the original primeval soup, which is believed to constitute some sort of ocean dating from three to four thousand millions years ago. While digitally fragmenting and recomposing images from our Natural world, the work suggests hypothetical and random narratives as a way to draw on a world made of individuals who are in a constant state of formation and flux. They bind, group, react, and replicate each other in an improbable attempt to search for stability. Could this stability be reached by a new configuration or set of spherical rules, or is it the perpetual movement and the continuing growth that matter the most?