Discovering a flaw and elaborating upon it - pushing it to extremes - in the search of hidden beauty. The infinite fractal patterns created through my artworks are considered by pigment manufacturers to be flaws and failures of product. Yet when allowed to express themselves fully, become instead, an unadulterated language of physical and elemental properties of the Earth, exposing the self-organizing principles of nature. This technique, and the organic patterns that it creates, lend themselves to an almost infinite exploration of the natural world across macro- and microcosmic scales.