Infinite

2015, triptych, pen and ink on 300gsm Arches paper, each 50x50cm. Photographers: Simon Hewson (artwork documentation), Fred Kroh (install image at Gallery Funaki, Melbourne), Emma Fielden (work in progress).

Infinite is a set of three pen and ink drawings composed through the repeated inscription of the decimal expression of one third, 0.3333…, an infinitely repeating sequence. Each drawing unfolds through continuous writing, extending across the surface to form a dense, abstract field. The works operate as a triptych, drawing on a three-part structure in which the repeated thirds never resolve into a singular whole. While three thirds form a complete unity as a fraction, their expression as a decimal extends indefinitely. What appears as a simple numerical system opens into a condition of perpetual incompletion, where division continues without end. As the decimal is reiterated, the language of numbers dissolves into a delicately dense field, shifting from legibility to abstraction. The resulting surfaces evoke white noise, starscapes and the expansive depth of the night sky.