‘Verging On Zero’
Defining Code # Finding Space
Initially, a series of software transitions render digitised images as computer code. The word ‘code’ implies an unspoken, secret and almost mute language. Hexadecimal code is a language like this, to be read in silence by the few who can interpret.
‘image | data | structure’
Untitled (image | data | structure, 01 & 02).
The work is always in relation to the photographic viewfinder; translating image into computer data as away of exploring raw and processed information, investigating positive and negative space, encouraging the viewer to locate themselves within or out of the frame.
The end result is often the resolution of a dichotomy between industrial and digital production, and the hand of the artist, between passivity and action; reflected in an emphasis on gesture and professionalism.
‘drawing | data | drawing’
‘Lucy' life drawing series
Interview Questions for Interalia Magazine - Drawing Thoughts (Part 4)’(March 2019 issue)
‘question: Simon, you often use text in your works (I’m thinking of the hexadecimal coded text from 'Lucy' life drawing series), using ‘text’ as ‘drawing’.
Can you say more about this?’
“‘Lucy’ came towards the end of a solid five or six years studio project. The title came from the name of a life model; the original drawings are of her; I digitised the drawings as computer code and rendered these coded texts into the scaled human proportions conceived by R. M. Schindler in his article, ‘Reference Frames in Space’.”