This collection of 16 digital renderings is a piece made by an algorithmic process that I developed. I wanted to make a homage to the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) that I experienced during the time Pakistan was being terrorised by the Taliban (the Pashtun word for "student" that emerged in the 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of the Soviet Troops ). The Microtexture series postdates a previous collection of paintings that I developed known as "Trauere" which was a series of red paints sprayed on a thick burlap canvas that was cut into a similar oval shape that was maintained through to the Microtextures series. 

 My intent behind this exploration was to explore the litigious action and mechanization of war; but more particularly the speculative breakdown of what this means for human peace. We still hold ourselves up to the tradition of quarrelling for our ideologies by battling it out in war; something humankind has romanticised and viewed as glorious and pious - which might have once been the case but the reality of modern warfare is but brutal and a machine for the lives of innocent people that never intended to be a part of it, but are usually swallowed up by it for either the promise of financial gain, Ideological victory or simply geographical factors. This is why I found this topic to be one that should be represented by an algorithm as it would produce (in theory) an endless Artscape that would represent this theme of loss of mankind. 

 I used a simple and traditional flood fill algorithm for an array of bitmaps - Black, White and grey pixels were assigned four variations of colours that fill a plain of Oval to make a landscape that seems to appear like a grid of colours that interplay with one another in both colour variation and gradient, but from a distance start to appear like bare flesh and even specs of bones. 

 The 16 pieces vary between asymmetrical, Symmetrical and large and smaller forms that all are unique from one another - sharing only the algorithm they were used to create and confined by the same shaped oval.