Kaleidoscopes

Developed during my summer residency at Alberta University of the Arts, Kaleidoscopes began with a simple experiment: what happens when I take one small slice of environmental data and repeatedly layer, reflect, rotate and duplicate it?

Rather than trying to visualize an entire weather event, I used a single data form as raw material, building increasingly complex compositions through hand-pulled silkscreen prints and, eventually, sculptural studies. The original information remains embedded in every piece, but repetition and reflection transform it into something entirely different—sometimes ordered, sometimes chaotic, and often unexpectedly organic.

This work moves my practice further away from data visualization and toward questions of perception, interpretation and larger systems. I’m interested in how the same information can change depending on how it is framed, repeated or amplified—and how quickly something factual can become visually seductive, overwhelming or difficult to read.