S Y N T A C T I C A S S E M B L A G E S

EXPLORING A FRACTAL UNIVERSE

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Did the Creator use a syntactical language for the making of our world?

Or other worlds?

Is there a formal codex of creation for our planet's physical being like the way the double coiled DNA helix functions as a blueprint for the biological world?

What guides the eruptions of mountains or the dunes of sand?

Like recombinant DNA, I have cloned and spliced my images into what I see as conceivable manifestations of this universal order -- an order that is abundant in all of nature.

It's elementary. Each component - each building block that started as a single photographic plate is cloned, reversed, turned inside out or upside down and duplicated. Every configuration conforms to and evokes the possibilities of the system. An endless system, endlessly replicating itself would create a new world.

Both natural and otherworldly at the same time, all of these assemblages are conceived by these rules, according to the grammar of this creationist code.

- PHIL TARLEY