ARTIST STATEMENT //

Patrick’s present work, explores the fusion of current technology with the human form. He uses abstraction and hybridization as avenues to visualize his own confrontation with the physical absolute of death and the larger role this plays in the symbiosis between the technological environment and posthuman evolution. This technologizing of the human body, or making technology more organic was borne from the experience of observing his father’s struggle with his own failing body as cancer metastasized from his colon to his spinal  column. His denial of his own death spurred Patrick’s own concerns of acceptance around his mortality, the proliferation of biotechnological intervention in the renovation of the human body, and how technology has expanded our evolution.