Control Mechanisms by Moorland Productions

A series of works which reflect on our preoccupation with security, surveillance and control. The RFID chips commonly found in products like CDs or books to monitor supply and prevent theft are omnipresent. Curiously, their circuit format also resembles the structures of arenas, labyrinths or the raked gravel of Zen gardens - which all have to do with mental or physical coordination or control. The colours and forms also hark back to American abstract painting of the 1940s and 50s as well as to the later Neo-Geo of the 1980s. These paintings are produced collaboratively with Seetha A. Both artists work on the same canvas, building up different superimposed physical and temporal layers.