In Indian philosophies, yantras are mystical diagrams that guide practitioners into the secrets of the manifestation of form and its return to formlessness. Tantric practitioners have also developed abstract paintings that function as guides to inner experience. Building on these practices, my visual scores transduce embodied knowing into lines, textures, inscriptions, traces, stitches, thus drawing out this knowledge.
Transduction can be understood as the process through which one form of energy, matter, or information is transformed into another — a relay where difference generates new forms of energy. In this sense, what I call a score acts as a site of transduction: it translates the subtle energies of thought, perception, or knowledge into the vibrational energies of inner gestures and outer movement.
I choose natural, organic materials, that can be composted, revived, 'reincarnated'. They include liquid, gels, goos, live cultures, bacteria, mould, arachnean lines, and threads gone astray, mud, earth and clay, all of which function as yantras – scores – for engaging the unknown materiality that we are by attuning to the alchemical processes that surround us.
Seaweed, copper, paper, glycerine, gelatin, talc, mould, plaster, clay, glaze, wood, stone, mirrors, acrylic, canvas, water, linen, silk, lycra, rubber, dimensions variable.
YANTRA transduction
Scores for Unknowing: (2025)
Indigo prints and yantra score
ink, graphite, indigo vat and indigo foam on paper
O Vive (2023), E=H2O (2022), And So It Begins (2021)
Bio membranes, haptic sound interfaces, attention cocoons
Seaweed, gelatin, glycerine, pigment, verdigris, copper, water, ink, acrylic sheet, petri dishes
Ikebana scores (ongoing)
Experiments with materials inspired by spatial principles of ikebana flower arranging.
Seaweed, gelatin, glycerine, pigment, copper pipe, latex, ceramics, wood, mirrors
ILINX (2019)
Mixed media installation, drawings, live performance, dimensions variable
Seaweed, gelatin, glycerine, pigment, wood, plaster, glass, ink and graphite on paper, pigment pen and acrylic on canvas, leather, string, gold leaf, mould cultures, acrylic sheet
Writing the Face of Anarchy (2014 - ongoing)
Drawing and collage, dimensions variable.
Pigment pen on paper, on paper.
