My media artwork is grounded in the assumption that our collective ability to sustain is as much a cultural problem as it is an economic or technological one. At every stage of the working process I ask myself: what am I doing to advance ‘sustainment’ and how might I also be sustaining the unsustainable? If I refused to struggle with these questions then I become a part of the problem. This is the key driver for my research.

Each work emerges from thinking and writing grounded upon a philosophical basis within ecosophy (translated literally as ‘wisdom of the dwelling’. I am strongly influenced by the work of eco-design philosopher Tony Fry and the ecological-philosophical disciplines of ecosophy as developed by Norwegian Arne Naess, Felix Guattari and many others.

These writers suggest that we exist within a series of ecologies (natural and artificial) that also include what Fry calls the ‘ecology of the image’. We dwell, see and act via the way images in this ecology (literary and pictorial) mediate all other ecologies. In other words we can ‘see’ nothing ‘naturally). Everything in this ecology of the image (like all other ecologies) is relational. The implication of acknowledging the ‘ecology of the image’ is that I as an artist must develop new forms of practice that entail non-discrete ways of working. This invites me to challenge my own subject position as ‘artist’ in order that I can become part of a change community - what Tony Fry calls a "re-directive practitioner".