This body of work represents a foray into the artist’s natural creative impulses, with its beginnings in the mid-1990s. The artist was already working in this style upon moving to Sweden in 2000, and later completed two Complexity paintings in 2017 and 2018. The series began through explorations of repeatable patterns and compositional systems, driven by a search for greater complexity that could still maintain readability. Merely adding additional layers to these pattern-based works, however, proved insufficient to produce a compelling visual phenomenon.

As overlapping patterns accumulated, their structures began to influence one another, allowing further systems and emergent properties to develop. Within this interplay, predetermined interconnectivity was given creative force through distortional and disruptive elements that were themselves bound to the structures of the systems.

The goal was to generate chaos from order — to create the organic from the mechanical, motion from mathematics. These works reflect the hidden processes that shape everything we know, suggesting the beauty that arises from the complex interactions of patterns vibrating through the systems around and within us.

Many of the works are the result of extensive, time-consuming processes, requiring months — and in some cases, years — of meticulous handwork. Pink Frost, for example, took a full two years to complete.