Symmetrics is a title that I give to a series of paintings in which I have used both hands simultaneously to draw the images. The paper is divided in half and then each hand draws on each side at the same time.

The results are a bit like mirror images, or those butterfly prints that one makes as a child by folding over a piece of paper covered in wet paint and then opening it again, finding that what seemed to be arbitrary splashes of paint take on a new significance and structure. Though in my case they are traces made by a brush or a pencil, which reveal themselves to during the process.

What is interesting to me is that although both sides are more or less the same, there are little differences, which are the idiosyncrasies of each hand, or each side of the brain. For me this makes the image more interesting than simply being a mirror of one side or the other. It is more true to nature.

I love the repetative, reflective quality it creates, which at times become almost hypnotic. My approach for many of these paintings has been almost shamanistic, putting myself in a trance like state of meditation. Some of the works are more contrived with a definate idea in mind, such as Darshan or Fractalinia(read about these individually) The pieces titled starsigns, and heads also use this method, but in these cases it is more a device of design than any thing else.