The rapidly expanding technology has irreversibly altered the world in ways which we are still trying to understand. We have entered a new era, characterized by an explosion of information. Societies and organizations have changed the way they perceive and perform in the world. The artwork here explores this changed and ever changing perception of the world – the information available, the transformation of data, and the performance as a result.
Different systems that make up various organizations, (everything, from the microscopic to macroscopic-all functions at the microscopic, biological level to complex organizations like societies) exist through their relationships with each other. Every component of an organization has the potential to affect all the other components. Some relationships are easily understood; others seem incomprehensible.
Process: All components of a system interact with each other to form patterns, and the system itself is defined by these patterns. To understand such a system, the focus is on assisting the process and not in describing the task at hand or defining the pattern (asking the question ‘how?’ rather than ‘what’ or ‘why’?). The focus on process will help to build relationships, to create interesting patterns and continually evolving systems that provide even more possibilities.
Stability: Stability in systems comes as a result of all components maintaining their own constancy. Each component in a pattern has its own character. Every component has its limits but at the same time, a number of different ways to interact with other components, thus creating interesting and evolving patterns.
Change: As a response to the changing environment or architectural space, a system changes in a way that remains consistent within itself in that environment. Thus the systems that I create change, but only within the constraints of an established environment. With adaptation comes transformation, which in turn assists in creating new environments.
Paradox: Rather than assuming a paradox as a closed system, through my works, it is represented as the point of origin for an inexhaustible number of interpretations. These interpretations question the identity of individual systems, their dualities and limits. The imagery is deconstructed to achieve different perspectives and the drawings themselves can be arranged in various ways, in hopes to get closer to the nature of a paradox and closer to the idea that paradoxes assist in creating a deconstructed continuity. The process of drawing becomes a paradox by identifying the limits of a concept and establishing identities, but at the same time assisting in the transcendence of these limits to create the infinite possibilities. The way drawing acts as an intermediary between other art forms and the concept of drawing not just as preliminary preparation but as something that has inexhaustible number of interpretations, qualifies drawing as a tool to explore concepts that exist despite lack of definite boundaries.
Minna Philips