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Working across painting, textiles and print, my practice revolves around notions of time, loss and ruin in visual culture. Oscillating between traditional and digital media and methods of scanning, reprinting and erasure, I explore the condition of our contemporary moment, punctuated by poly-temporality, contradiction and anachronism. I am interested in these ideas as paralleled by the notion of the multiverse, in which many realities exist simultaneously. 

 

Digital and printed images are scanned, cropped, enlarged and reprinted from shared archives and from my heterogeneous, potentially anarchic, (non) systematic collection of mostly obsolete books. Museum catalogues, craft and pattern kits, botanical guides and reference books on architecture, ruins, geology, astronomy, astrology, often of poor quality or resolution, are subjected to digital entropy through reprinting, layering, and obfuscation. This process of ruination alludes to the failures and contradictions of our times, aiming to reassemble and destabilise histories. ​

 

Diana Taylor, 2025.

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