Hallucination Studies

7 works

Hallucination Studies begins with a tension I have never tried to resolve. What interests me is the sense of recognition in descriptions of altered perception, as if they point toward something I do not need to experience directly in order to know. These works come out of that feeling, not as illustrations of hallucinations, but as attempts to hold open a space where something ungraspable passes through form and becomes briefly visible. In these pieces, chance is allowed to move freely for a moment before it meets a rigid grid. The grid does not tame what happens inside it. It only gives it a temporary edge and makes the encounter legible. Color slips, spreads, and gathers into forms that seem to approach the condition of an image, then pull away from it again. I think of these works as studies of what happens when structure meets something that cannot fully be structured. If Biomes deals with forms as they emerge into the world, Hallucination Studies stays closer to the undercurrents beneath that surface, to the unstable forces that move below the image before it coheres into place.