"Whimsy Theory 1 features personas of my imagination I call WHIMSIES. I imagined them as carefree, unencumbered beings free of the constraints of gravity. They have an oculus which represents a spinal cord. They’re there, but you have to look for them as they are obscured by biological inspired abstractions of a neuron like network color. The influence of this piece is the art of Jackson Pollock. I had read the sprawling biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith while recovering in a hospital bed in my home after my second surgery. I remember vividly when I saw my first Jackson Pollock paintings in person in 1985 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. While studying architecture at Pratt, my studio professor Hanford Yang required us as part of his design studio class to visit the Met and Moma and look at art. He said a good architect must be exposed and understand the visual arts. Student passes to these museums enabled me to visit them as often as I wanted and I took great advantage of this. Seeing Pollock's enormous paintings and looking at the network of paint dribbled and splattered on the canvas with sticks took my breath away. I could understand for the first time that these dribbles and splatters came from a deep place; that of the unconscious mind and it affected the way I would approach my own design methodologies, considering that allowing my intuition to play a role was to be welcomed. Intuition continues to play an important role in my work as a visual artist, particularly in how I use color. The neuron like network of color in Whimsy Theory 1 is homage to Pollock done in my own digital way."

- Andrew Reach

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