My process begins with the search for intriguing human data, which I then mine for patterns and outliers that excite my aesthetic sensibilities.

Roland Barthes: – culture versus nature: Barthes says the meaning of an image is torn between the system of culture and the system of nature.

What do images want? W.J.T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, says images are not just what they mean or what they do, but what is the secret of their vitality – what do they want?

Russell W. Zears, former NASA scientist, talks about art relying on communication via symbols that both the sender and receiver share as a common referent, usually a well-defined set of objects or situations that many people have agreed have a certain meaning.

To develop my data art, I begin by extracting data from personal sources, such as mobile phones, DNA, web logs, activity logs, health monitors, government or company data.