The Implicate Form

I call this style The Implicate Form because the form of the whole image is implied by the collective relationships of individual cells, a reflection of how reality is created by the dynamic interplay of packets of suggestion, disturbances in the quantum foam.

In a way, my work represents individual responsibility, and how if we take care of our own details, the bigger picture takes care of itself, it's quality implied by the details.

As a child I would experiment with geometry, progressions and patterns, and would be always sketching animals and my surroundings. I needed to express the way I see the world, and through a developing understanding of physics and spirituality, an original technique emerged in 1992 with a piece now called "Changes"

Although some of my work looks computer-generated, all of it is created by hand, cell by cell.

The work begins with a sketch, where I visualise the contours, draw a frame in CorelDraw (now Illustrator), and then the cells are created one by one, each carefully positioned and dynamically related to the next.

For years the whole process was entirely by hand, using just fine fibre-tip pens and coloured pencils, but in 2002 I realised how Corel and PhotoShop could expand the potential for my ideas and allow me to achieve the level of detail and depth of form that I could previously only dream of.

Each image takes between 6 and 9 months to create, sometimes working at a magnification of over 20,000% to achieve a high level of accuracy and realism in the illusion of form.

I hope the work demonstrates that it is the way in which individuals relate to each other that shapes the quality of their own environment and the harmony of the bigger picture, and that all forms - including us - are processes, 'not things'. On the quantum level we are never true individuals, never separate, never alone

Nick Rumbelow