Mac Bryla — Sydney, Australia

I work across two disciplines that share a common thread: everything starts with something real.

In photography, I shoot architecture, abstracts, and the geometry of everyday things. I am drawn to bold lines, light, and the way a space reveals its character.

In computational art, I build my own tools. A custom application transforms real world datasets into abstract compositions. The first body of work, Eighty Five Seasons, draws on 85 years of daily global temperature records. Every piece carries actual data. Nothing is generated from a prompt.

The two practices feed each other directly: colour palettes extracted from Antarctic photographs shape the data compositions, so the art carries the emotional temperature of a real place.

Before art, my career was in technology. That background is not incidental, it is what makes the application possible and what shapes the way I see data, systems, and the stories hidden inside them.