Screw Paintings, which were first created around 2014, were originally throwaway byproducts from my paintings where I masked out areas for spray painting. Often I found the visual effects of screwed up newspapers fascinating and eventually was compelled to turn them into works of art. I came to understand them as a fascinating space to think about the actual and the virtual. Although I am too close to them to be able to see, some have told me that they look like aerial photographs of landscapes; a moonscape or perhaps the stargate sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 2001. They are collaged newspapers screwed up, unfolded and sprayed from different directions before being collaged and flattened onto canvases. The sequence of originating as a flat newspaper into a physical sculptural form before being flattered again oscillates between the physical and the illusory.

The title of the series is tongue in cheek as well as a literal description of the process. A playful reference to zombie formalism while overloading the surfaces by using financial newspapers to refer to the information spaces that surround us and the illusions of a physical space rendered almost completely flat to open up spaces to question our habitual perceptions of reality.