The story behind COZZAH?

Hey, I'm Cozza.

For those who know me, this is no surprise, and for those who want to, you'll learn pretty quickly that I'm obsessed with patterns and notice them in places most people would walk straight past. So it's quite ironic that I've actually got a small mineral and crystal collection with these little fern like patterns in them, and for years I had no idea what they were even called.

They're called dendrites. A mineral pattern that mirrors the same branching shapes we all see in nature, in those aerial photos of rivers, in trees and lightning, even in our own lungs and the neurons in our brains. Pretty cool right.

So naturally I wanted to recreate them into my artworks. I use acrylic paints and inks and I still have almost no control over the outcome, and for a self confessed control freak that's either torture or the whole point, still not sure which. But honestly I'm just as curious about the outcome as anyone seeing it for the first time.

Most people who see my work never mention dendrites though, they tell me they can see a landscape, or mountains, rivers, sometimes even animals or faces. Which makes sense because that same pattern is literally all around us, most of us just walk straight past it.