These studies explore how Alien Landscapes extends beyond the painting into lush immersive environments. Through material experimentation, works in progress, and speculative installations, these studies investigate scale, movement, light, and the relationship between painting, architecture, and embodied experience.
Spatial Studies
Whale songs in the night sky
Installation Study
2025 • Work in Progress
An ode to stories of old worlds finding their way into the present, and to the cyclical nature of life, of creation, destruction, and creation again Whale Songs in the Night Sky is envisioned to be a suspended multi media installation that imagines the passing of time. It dwells on the romantic notion that if one stood still beneath the stars on a still night and listened carefully, one might hear whale songs echoing from another time.
The installation comprises of approximately fifteen parallel aluminium composite panels, individually cut into irregular organic forms and suspended within the gallery space. Embellished with paint, ink, thread, rope, and layered collage elements, the work imagines a fragmented ecosystem that is suspended in a continued state of transformation. This will also be accompanied by audio and olfactory components of ambient sounds and scents in the installation space.
Exploring themes of rewilding, adaptation, entropy, and ecological resilience, the installation stages a collision between industrial materiality and organic visual language. While the ACP panels reference manufactured surfaces and urban infrastructure, the hand worked textures, suspended fibers, and layered imagery suggest fungal growth, mycelial networks, shifting terrains, and speculative ecologies reclaiming space after collapse. The work instead of becoming a fixed image behaves like a living system in flux.
Installed in parallel layers with varying depths and heights, the piece is envisioned to create shifting sightlines, shadows, and spatial interruptions as the viewers move around it. Hanging thread and rope elements extend beyond the sculptural form, allowing the work to visually “infect” the surrounding space and evoke processes of spread, mutation, and regeneration.
PROTOTYPE STUDIES
Early experiments exploring suspension, layering, scale, and movement for Whale Songs in the Night Sky.
Dystopian Dreams
Installation Study
2026 • Work in Progress
This installation imagines the gallery space as a site undergoing ecological transformation. Expanding beyond the boundaries of painting, this installation spreads across the wall through layered paper, textiles, stains, suspended forms, and fragments that appear to grow, decay, and mutate over time. The gallery space itself will become a part of the work by being marked by dark drips, invasive textures, and biomorphic drawings that suggest the space is slowly being reclaimed by another living system.
At its center, the dense black mass functions simultaneously as void, residue, and memory. Around it, botanical motifs, microscopic forms, and geological textures accumulate like ecological strata, creating an alien landscape that is suspended between collapse and regeneration.
The work combines hand cut paper, painted surfaces, printed textiles and paper, ink, charcoal, thread, suspended paper elements, etc.
PROCESS STUDIES
A close observation of of painted fragments, surfaces, and micro ecologies that inform this installation.
Hopescrolling
Installation Study
2026 • Work in Progress
Hopescrolling is a multi screen digital installation comprising of twenty or more wall mounted screens playing looping sequences of video art, moving image fragments, photographs, found footage, text, and animated compositions. Installed within a dark or dimly lit environment, the work intends to immerse viewers within an evolving ecology of light, image, rhythm, and visual noise.
Drawing from imagery of wilderness, biological growth, ecological collapse, digital debris, and nature imitating artifice, the installation explores themes of mutation, adaptation, decay, resilience, and regeneration. The visuals oscillate between moments of beauty and discomfort where lush landscapes, fragmented organic forms, flickering colour fields, and textual interventions emerge and disappear in accelerated cycles.
The title Hopescrolling references the contemporary act of searching for moments of beauty, meaning, or optimism while navigating endless streams of information and crisis imagery online. Rather than presenting nature as separate from technology, the installation imagines a rewilded digital ecosystem in which organic and synthetic forms evolve side by side. The densely clustered screens begin to behave like a living network, transforming the gallery into a space suspended between meditation, overstimulation, wonder, and collapse.
COLLECTED OBSERVATIONS
Collected photographs, video fragments, found imagery, and studio observations
gathered in the ongoing development of Hopescrolling.
