What Has Been Comes Not Again (2022) 110cm x 160 cm giclee print on Aquarelle Rag paper 

Photo Credit @JulesLister

An arrangement of hand sewn velvet brains are presented as a still life. Plastic insects infect the scene and an avocado sits in the background. Inspired by Dutch flower paintings and the surrealist movement the scene depicts my interest in autobiographical artificial displays that presents objects that are simultaneously beautiful and disturbing.

This tableau is a meditation on the macabre and the mundane, where objects, once alive, are rendered artificial and inert. The velvet brains, meticulously crafted yet lifeless, evoke a profound sense of loss—the death of organic intellect reduced to mere artifice. This stark imagery conjures an underlying dread of artificial intelligence and the erosion of human intellectual sovereignty.