Artist statement:

Digitally Modified is about the aggressive intrusion into our lives/ into life itself of new technologies, with unknowable results. For example, over 50% of the foods we consume are "genetically modified" - a term that sounds very abstract, yet describes molecular alterations to the very blueprint of life. Perhaps these changes offer great promise for our future - or perhaps this is what the corporations which profit from these technologies want us to believe. Either way, we are excited by the possibilities and are drawn into the new and unknown. We feel dependent on the development of new technologies, yet fearful of a loss of control.

The starting point of these paintings is a collection of found images (flawless vegetables; colourful pills and capsules; digitally imagery, etc.) which I superimpose on the canvas. I am a consumer of images; manipulating, modifying, cloning in search of the new hybrid. There is playfulness and lightness in my recombinations. The work is filled with forms which are not quite recognizable, but suggestive of cells, molecules, pixels, magnified and distorted, stretched and digitalized. The images which emerge are ambiguous: potentially disturbing or beautiful, floating in between.

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