The convergence of art, culture and science has been a major theme throughout the artist’s life, even from an early age. As a child, he would stare at maps for long periods of time, trying to uncover patterns and their unspoken representations of the world and how human culture and development affected it. “In every map, there are multiple sets of hidden patterns that tell stories. Like in the patterns of how streets radiate from certain center points, telling the history of when each part of the city was built, and why, and whether it was a relevant area anymore or not. It was never just what the map said; it was always more.” Borgersen first pursued study and a career rooted in science and technology. His graduate thesis investigated image processing and computer vision. From that time forward, the artist was seeking to decode and discover this language of shapes and patterns--both concrete and cultural.

Borgersen began a career in stochastics, which is the science of extracting patterns – the spoken word, images or coded messages – out of the random noise in communications signals. “I enjoy recognizing many layers of patterns in every day life that others don’t perceive – in pictures, in sounds, in human behavior. I don’t recall things as discrete objects, but instead as how they have fallen into some kind of pattern, or a series of patterns. My creativity comes from my unusual world view, and I like to share it through my art. I know I am successful when one of my works changes they way someone views a subject or enables a person to define an emotional connection to it.”

Borgersen has eschewed formal art training, seeking to find his “own path,” developing an independent style that leverages his broad technological skills. The themes in his work touch on emotion as they do on the mass aspects of society – sexuality and consumerism, nature and multiplicity, skin texture and raw personality, childhood, junk food and luxury goods. “Art is both limited and enriched by the technology available– the materials, the formats, the methods. We’re in a brand new, almost revolutionary time for image processing and its use to create art. With it, we can find new ways to uncover the deep emotional language in subjects that reaches each of us emotionally. Some of this has been used in the advertising industry, but the goals of advertising narrow and sales-centric. I’m looking for something more inherent and natural. Something much truer.”