- Piped Oil Paintings
Oil painting on a found book made with a cake decorating extruder and dusted with neon and iridescent pigments when still wet. Paint is squeezed directly from the tube into the piping bag where colours mix and swirl unpredictably as they are extruded.
The oil paint extrusions reach upwards in height resembling patisserie, seashells and cellular nodes all at once. As the outer layer of paint dries, a skin forms over it buckling and moving in tension as evidence of the seismic activity beneath.
Part of a series of paintings informed by a fiction of an imaginary commune in Colorado Springs. The found book this painting is on, is imagined to come from the commune library, and is an overview of the 1990s TV series The X-Files, where paranormal events were investigated by FBI agents Mulder and Scully; one a believer and one a sceptic.