The moment we met, has been a slow-to-complete project, with the initial work completed in August 2022 and publishing late December 2022. This project felt personal and one I’m super excited about, putting it out into the world is never easy.

The concept is a simple one, what happens when we meet – there’s a chemical and biological reaction to human interaction. This piece reflects that in a very abstract and minimal manner.

There is often very little on the canvas, in a world of thumbnails and seconds to impress, this may not jump off the page as you scroll past. The work would ideally be printed out in very large formats. It feels like the bold colours and patterns benefit from being in a large physical format.

That said I’ve been living with a test output of this on my phone for months and I’m still drawn to it and fascinated by what’s going on. One of the joys of Generative Art is you, the artist, are discovering the outputs as much as any viewer.

This work doesn’t use specific pallets, as the colours are generated to be complimentary or tertiary. I have set boundaries on saturation and brightness and use those to create dynamic pallets, that feel deliberate rather than random.

I really wanted to have a sensation of interlocking or distant elements – these are the elements that dominate the work resting in space or on a patterned background. Those elements should feel like a hug or a little terse. Originally I only had solid backgrounds but it now features 6 background patterns with some variation in those and how much they stick to grids/sizing.

I’ll let you decode the work for yourself.

Inspirations

We’re all inspired by many things – for me, there are a few obvious inspirations.

The physical installations of Verner Panton are a constant delight to me and the colours and shapes are echoed in this work subconsciously – I imagine what it's like to journey with a loved one through ‘Visiona’, his plastic pleasure boat installation from 1968 and 1970.

The movie Barbarella from the same time also comes to mind as it delves into the world of the mind and pleasure and fear, through worlds made up of giant projected lava lamps.

Still, with cinema and more directly to the theme, I’ve long been obsessed by ‘The Fantastic Voyage’ since my childhood. I am journeying into the body, being a landscape of delight while conversely being a place filled with danger.

Finally, on the scale aspect, I recently went to Kaws exhibition in the serpentine, and the scale of his painting massively inspired me (almost as much as Rothko and Lichtenstein did as a teenager visiting the Tate).

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