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BreederArt is a series of images that represent a career- being suggested by the term “breeding” is far more apt
long exploration of the marriage of art and technology. than other terms associated with creation in an artistic
Each image originates from my photographs and, regulated realm like rendering, painting or sculpting. Families of
to the expectations of evolutionary software, a significant images can trace their lineage to a particular origin and

degree of chance, coincidence, accidents of symmetry and it is possible to discern within them common ancestries.
the artist’s hand. The machine has evolved from slave to As metaphors, I see them as symbols for the body, the
partner. Photographic input comes from many sources spirit and evolving life and place.
and I also manufacture subjects and backgrounds. The

signs of meaning are homogenized offering regrowth and At a personal level, my relationship to these “mostly
reconstruction within BreederArt through innuendos rather demonic” images changes as I age and disconnect from
than unrelenting classification. the reality defined by workplace, friends and social
institutions like religion. Death with the well-mannered

While subject matter differs among series, particular spirits associated with the Gods is a very different process
forms regularly emerge, among them spindles and twisted than the atheist death where the only company in the last
face-like spirit figures. Like some sort of gargoyle or alien, hours comes from demons of doubt invented in your mind
these entities emerge most clearly from organic subjects. and previously visited in one’s art.

Given the means of their genesis, the organic coming-into- An artist’s statement influenced by George Harris

SNOW AND ICE TRANSOFORMATIVE TOTEMS, 2022 BREEDERART: DIGITAL DRAWING ON SOMERSET 40X96 IN. | 101.6X243.8 CM.
SNOW AND ICE TRANSOFORMATIVE TOTEMS, 2022 BREEDERART: DIGITAL DRAWING ON SOMERSET 40X96 IN. | 101.6X243.8 CM.

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