This was one of the first paintings I did using both hands to draw the images. I divided the canvas into sections using each line to draw the images down to a central point of focus, the painting has quite a formal structure.

At the time I was working on this piece I was reading a book called Chaos, by James Gleick, I fell in love with the idea and the image of fractals.

I was not alone in my love of fractals, they were everywhere, on cards, posters and designs, club flyers, people were even programming their computers to generate random fractal patterns, which left to their own devices seemed to be in a constant state of mutation, forever changing shapes and colours.

What I liked in particular was the way a certain hue would dominate the screen, then as the mutation took place, another colour would start breaking through, first in little bits, and then gradually covering the whole screen with a new colour.

In this painting there is also some kind of mutation taking place, although more of an organic nature, rather than the mathematical mutations of a fractal.