A synthetic grammar of attrition

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This research questions faith, reality, our relationship with the physical world and our reliance on the virtual. The enquiry culminated in a set of large scale digital drawings printed onto semi-gloss photo paper that were exhibited within the touring International Print Triennial shown in Poland, Germany and Austria. The drawings explore our faith in virtual and digital environments, combining imagery from religious painting, the internet, advertising and popular culture, and reassembles these elements to deliver synthetic visual adjuncts that compose a readable form from an over-saturated and ever expanding field of visual sources. The combination of the constructed objects with the virtual nature of the design process envisages the computer as a belief system, a place of infinite creative possibilities, augmented reality and intangible space. The methodology combined preliminary physical hand drawing with digital mouse controlled drawing, extending the language of Photoshop produce

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