A10

i-started-off-by-making-paintings-that-incorporated-optical-effects-and-digital-patterns-around-2010-at-the-time-i-was-masking-with-tape-and-eventually-decided-to-add-complexity-through-creating-the-patterns-digitally-and-silk-screening-them-to-the-painting-surface-i-would-then-use-the-silk-screened-patterns-as-the-starting-point-for-my-paintings-each-would-all-start-in-a-common-place-and-would-push-off-of-the-original-digital-pattern-image-into-its-own-territory-each-painting-though-because-of-this-shared-origin-pattern-carries-the-same-digital-dna-ive-come-full-circle-now-the-works-started-out-digital-they-were-brought-into-the-physical-world-and-painted-on-by-hand-and-then-high-res-scanned-and-then-digitally-layered-and-painted-a-result-of-this-back-and-forth-is-that-they-have-memory-from-both-the-physical-and-the-virtual-the-texture-of-the-spray-paint-mimics-the-pixel-the-pattern-which-was-once-a-square-of-black-and-white-stripes-has-grown-and-morphed-and-replicated-into-a-dense-and-complex-structural-system-the-negative-stroke-technique-which-i-developed-in-painting-originated-by-removing-parts-of-layers-in-photoshop-these-are-hybrid-objects-that-live-in-the-virtual-while-looking-back-through-the-screen-at-their-common-source-cousins-occupying-the-physical-realm-a10-is-a-part-of-the-a-series-originally-minted-as-an-edition-of-40-on-tezos-burned-down-to-the-last-remaining-4-and-migrated-to-eth