Matt Trahan's work uses cumulative mark-making to explore geometry, repetition and the visual structures that emerge over time. He is interested in the relationship between mathematics and aesthetics, and in the way simple systems can produce complex forms. Most of his pieces are built slowly by hand through thousands of small marks and incremental decisions. The process is meditative and time-consuming, allowing patterns to evolve gradually while returning focus to the immediate present. He is drawn to the tension between order and unpredictability: precise geometric systems that still feel alive, imperfect and human. Underlying the work is an interest in how humans search for order, meaning and beauty through pattern and form. Using repetition, chance and systematic labour, he to creates works that invite sustained attention and reward close looking.