Compendium
Diagrams, architectural forms, and conceptual language, mapping a shifting compendium of ideas and patterns.
Wooden cabinet housing a screen displaying a continuous animated sequence
2014
15 x 15 x 21cm
OVERVIEW
Compendium explores the structures through which humans attempt to understand and organise reality. Mathematical diagrams, images of ancient temples, and conceptual language referencing fields such as philosophy and technology appear within a shifting visual system, bringing together different traditions of knowledge and suggesting recurring patterns across disciplines and eras.
The work takes the form of a wooden cabinet containing a screen that displays a continuous animated sequence. Extracted still frames from the animation form a series of editioned prints, each representing a moment crystallised from the larger sequence — fragments from an evolving visual compendium.