Phil Delisle
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  • Shifting Contexts (2025)
  • Surface Collapse/Integration (2023)
  • Recursive Image (2020-2022)
  • Fragmentum Opus II (2014–2016)
  • Constructed Studio (2013–2019)
  • Amber — Reverse Transparency
  • Grant — Material Instability
  • Fragmentum Opus (2013)
  • Strange Connections (2010–2012)
  • Switching Modes (2006–2009)
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Recursive Image (2020–2022)

The work from 2020-2022 develops the processes that would later consolidate into a single-surface logic. Working on the reverse side of plexiglass, images emerge through cycles of construction, disruption, and partial erasure.

A key discovery in this period was that the most generative moments occurred through failure, when images were fractured, scraped back, and selectively destroyed. Using razor blades to remove and destabilize earlier layers, the work opens onto a more intuitive and suggestive process, where new forms are drawn from the remnants of previous structures.

Rather than refining a stable image, these works operate as sites of collision and recombination. Pixelated figures, repeated motifs, and painterly gestures enter as provisional elements, testing how disparate visual systems might coexist or interfere