From the Algorithm series. Iteration 16.
Oil on cradled Belle Arti wood panel. W 50 x H 70 x D 3.8 cm.
Inspired by endless repetitions of autocatalytic processes in nature, in this series I set up a self sustaining system consisting of a creation, destruction and maintenance process. In the creation process I paint a portrait on a wood panel on top of the result of the previous iterations that I scrape down in the destruction process, while in maintenance I use the scraped down paint and put it onto another wood panel. I execute the iterations over and over again for several weeks. All creations vanish by destruction, all destructions vanish by creation, while maintenance keeps all the memories. There is emerging an entity here that has qualities and properties that its constituent processes do not have individually.