This website explores the work of Nigel Brookes - software, images, history, and science.

 


Gr. protos, first.

 

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Images

The Proto Images gallery is an ongoing exhibition of my pictures. The pictures are all hosted on Flickr - explore the slideshows of each set below...
 




New Peckham

New Peckham
Midsummer and the garden is in full bloom - views and textures from the beautiful Whanganui garden of 'New Peckham'.


Kowhai Park

Kowhai Park
Views and textures of Whanganui's psychedelic Kowhai Park - worn from nearly a century of play.



New Peckham

New Peckham
Midsummer and the garden is in full bloom - views and textures from the beautiful Whanganui garden of 'New Peckham'.


Kowhai Park

Kowhai Park
Views and textures of Whanganui's psychedelic Kowhai Park - worn from nearly a century of play.



Ancestors

Root
A sequential pair of photomosaics exploring colonisation of New Zealand - first by Maori, then by European. A first-contact Maori tiki drawn by Cook's artist William Hodges made of fragments of bush and Maori, followed by the intricate necktie and jewelley worn by my great great grandmother Eliza Brookes, painted by Gottfried Lindauer, reconstructed from the painting, bush and Maori.

Biotic

Root
Celebrating biological intertwinings - some natural co-minglings, some not so natural...


Bush Psycho

Root
A series of pairs of New Zealand bush images, superimposed and hue-shifted via a custom image processing filter.


Edge

Root
Border. Verge. Brink. Synonyms for the edge between two states - the zone of maximum possibility. Words reconstructed as photomosaics using natural textures of lawn, bush, and beach.

Flora

Root
Photomosaics of flowers made with other flowers or random glyphs.


Technobiotic

Root
Technology feeding back on biology. (R)evolutionary phylogenies assisted by molecular biology.


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