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FAD magazine

“My practice explores our jagged human relationship to the technologies we interact with and which influence our lives. I think the fetishisation of technology is a massive trend in our culture. Using the failures of technology as part of my art is a way to break down these systems. The glitches that occur in the art production process are magnified and repeated. I take these glitched forms and connect them up to live data feeds, so they act as living artworks, disrupted reflections of the systems they’re dependent on.”
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Red Lion magazine

‘What’s striking about these works is that the results of cold, mathematical glitching can yield soft, warm art. Many BURNERs appear to have horizontal brush strokes of ruddy oil paint. Since the work is dynamic, one gets the idea of a amorphous gas cloud that is never at rest. At the same time, the works look nothing like the original cloud images that were glitched to create the BURNER series. Thus, crashblossom has taken the organic, obliterated it, and yielded something digitally organic. It’s a fascinating contradiction.’
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An essay on Burner

‘Using a metaphor between physical and digital resources, each layer is drawn from a manipulated two-dimensional image of physical gas extruded in a three-dimensional digital space, worked in different ways to render them unrecognizable to a point of inflection. This visual material is the base of a language meant to express the previously impassable chasm that is the whole of every participant’s intentions on Ethereum’s decentralized network.’
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