For years he kept his fine art practice, rooted in printmaking and ink on paper, separate from his design work, before merging the two into a single practice built on creative coding, mathematics and algorithms.² His 2021 series Utopias of the Damned is a homage to Canberra, Australia's national capital and the country of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, depicting brutalist government architecture set against native bush and manicured parkland. Ides of March, a debut collaboration with p4stoboy, builds on that concept, pairing Strauss's Canberra-inspired brutalist structures with a programmatic system by p4stoboy governing structure, space and light, rendered isometrically.³

Meditations: Pessimism, a 2023 series of 40 works made with JavaScript and p5.js, portrays a dark, ever-changing cityscape whose structures sway, interlock and transform yet always return to their original state.²