Skačej’s repeated motif of “The Brain Pattern” represents an on going self referential discourse on continuity and the nature of ‘being’.
The artist always forms the pattern using one continuous line; “There are structural properties to this ‘brain-pattern’ that we see repeating in the action of growth and intrinsic in life forms, and a visceral aspect that for me captures and expresses a fundamental quality, like an ‘essence’ of life – a vibrating and enigmatic quality which is inherently animated. There’s an emergent property to the process where complexity evolves from a simple set of rules…that is what creates life…a single cell invaginating. I’m compulsively drawn to exploring this pattern and I find the process both obsessive, meditative and grounding – primarily because I know it’s not idiosyncratic to me, I can see it everywhere”.