Strange Kelp

Strange Kelp grows its compositions rather than arranging them. Translucent discs, each finely ringed like a cross-section of wood or a lens of tinted glass, gather into colonies and pull toward one another along stretched, sinewy stems. Where the stems meet they thicken into dark hubs, and the colour deepens as layer falls over layer. The effect is of something rooted and swaying at once: an organism caught mid-drift in clear water, part seaweed, part circuit.

In Strange Kelp #1, four colour families claim their own ground: amber at upper left, crimson and rose at upper right, teal and ultramarine along the base. A single black spine descends through the centre and binds them, its junctions darkening wherever two colonies overlap. Offered as limited-edition giclée prints on museum-quality cotton paper, the series is biomorphic abstraction with a naturalist’s patience, closer to a specimen plate than a diagram.