Conjecture, Graduate Body Of Work


Conjecture is a body of work that is an expression of primary documentation I had collected and archived that centred around the idea of autonomous mark making and their sociology with alternate symbols. When peering into a scene that holds a mark, something sovereign becomes known. Perhaps void of human interaction or conscious physicality, marks evolve into a conversation with their environment. The more this particular typology grew the larger the web of repeated symbols and patterns become apparent.

When archiving marks from places on Eora, Wirradjuri and Woiwoung land, repeated patterns of texture and symbolism begin to mimic each other without being in direct dialogue. Although from seperate places, these symbols share a clear language of line and thought.




The larger question is ‘Are these marks conscious?’ Do they derive direction from a spirit higher than chance, or is there a universal vocabulary of symbols that appears when searched for?




These works serve as artefacts of the symbols and their dialogue. Jacquete Dale describes an artefact as “the expression of purpose, of varying degrees of complexity, but equally a product of thought and concrete embodiment of the idea and ideas of a mind or many minds acting in concert intentionally and for the sake of realising an intention.” (Dale, Ontology, Acumen, 2002, 271) She goes on to say that “We discriminate between multiple subcategories of physical object. There are physical forces, fields and micro- and macro- physical entities, particles and complexes, molecules and atoms and the like. We similarly distinguish between multiple subcategories of abstract entities, particulars like numbers and sets, and universals such as properties, qualities and relations.
All intentional entities, minds and cultural entities alike are about something in different ways. They can intend something by virtue of themselves alone or by virtue of being used by thought as an expression of another intentional entity’s intentionality”


my work is a self driven and explored typology of symbolism and divinity that has a continuation with the ideas surrounding language and autonomy. It has a thematic system that can be identified without specific geographical location, and can be expressed in an infinite amount of ways, separating the codependence of symbol and geography.