Ian Faden uses collage, transparencies and paint to embrace contradictions by finding a more expansive and poetic space of musing between them. Through specific references and responsive gestures, he hopes to reflect back a sense of experience and joy, as well as entropy and precariousness. Absurdity, irrationality and camp guide and balance decisions made on surfaces as a way of playfully engaging with the self. His works form into being, taking shape as figurative weathervanes or geological strata, ever-shifting between chance, control and hierarchies.