Jo Milne
2 February - 2 March 2006

In previous work the investigation of codes and language and their applications and mechanics have been recurrent themes within my work. In the paintings I explored the visual similarites of these codes, however different their application: DNA, Braille, Jaquard loom cards, Pianola rolls and the resonance that they possess when their readability is in doubt. Each code or language a way of depicting or describing the world, all reliant on a cypher, a machine or an introduction in how they are to be read, before they will reveal their full meaning. As such the work moves around in an abstract language of points and tramas, which can be simultaneously read as mere pattern or as encoded figuration.