Non-Narrative Visual Expression: Art by Jan Swinburne
ComplexRefractionJan Swinburne is a multimedia artist who is interested in the intersection of art and science. Her works explore non-narrative visual expression, frequently through the media of glitch art and abstract photography.
I love Jan’s recent series of abstract photographs, which comprises numerous moments of light reflecting on smooth and textured surfaces, like walls. The lack of background context combined with the ethereal, undulating light forms lends an almost supernatural sense to these works, calling to mind spectres, or perhaps strange and undiscovered sea life.
Jan's portfolio website, www.janswinburne.com
Swinburne’s glitch photographs are mysterious in a similar sense, while straying from mystical interpretations into something more tethered to technology. In these, colors reminiscent of tests patterns create abstractions in which the mind tries and fails to find concrete pattern. I enjoy this disorientation along with the artist’s occasional explanations - one work is based on a waveform of Jan’s voice, for example.
