Difference and repetition is Burtonwood’s second solo exhibition with Bert Green Fine Art and features two bodies of work produced over a five-year span from 2020 to 2025. These works expand and build upon Burtonwood’s continued research exploring the Deleuzian idea of difference through repetition. The exhibition premiers two new pieces made in 2024 and three older works made in 2020 and 2021.

A cube is a rectangle (series C), 2024, combines Burtonwood’s long established interest in generative art practices with his ongoing series of cube aka Würfel drawings. Series C scales the basic Würfel matrix up by a factor of 2 and divides it into four separate quadrants mounted onto four separate panels hung next to each other to make a unified rectangular whole. Taken together each rectangle depicts the signature pyramid/cube/towers/module typology Burtonwood has been looping through since 2022. Over the course of the exhibition Burtonwood will stage a happening of sorts where each week the seven individual Series C pieces will be rearranged using a variety of generative rule sets. Visitors to the exhibition on a given week will see a different presentation of the Series C works than the week before. For the closing reception the Series C works will be rearranged to their starting positions. Burtonwood will document each week's iterations and plan to present these “new” works in the future.

Double dutch (New Buffalo), 2024 is a two-minute duration stop-frame animation video with accompanying audio produced by Burtonwood on a recent artist in residency at the Roger Brown House in New Buffalo, Michigan. Over the course of twelve days Burtonwood produced twelve stop frame animations each one showing the unfolding cube sculpture opening to its full extent and then closing back up. Working outdoors Burtonwood took full advantage of the changing season, moving shadows and bucolic setting of the Roger Brown House to capture the passage of time and produce a rhythmic and hypnotic meditation on the idea of difference through repetition. The audio was produced with field recordings taken during his stay in New Buffalo and features stand out sounds from the area, bird calls, train whistles and the ever-present rushing wind and crashing waves of nearby Lake Michigan.

Accompanying these two new works are three pen plotter drawing projects made in 2020 and 2021. In Time becomes (set 2), 2020, Burtonwood loops through a photograph of a donut using software to computationally render a variety of half-tone-like strategies to simulate surface, form and detail. In this set he produces eight individual one-color images drawn by machine and a ninth composite drawing of all eight superimposed upon each other. Viewports (vestibule), 2021 depicts the entrance way of a double-decker Amtrak train Burtonwood made a 3D scan of in early 2018 on a trip to the Grand Canyon. Inspired by multi-view imaging present in CAD applications he produced four pen plotter images in a pointillist style reproducing three orthographic views and one isometric view of the 3D scan repeating the same subject four different ways.

Completing the pen plotter work are four pieces from The space between us a series of drawings Burtonwood made from video stills of performances enacted by videokaffe, an international art collective he is part of. In this project, videokaffe commissioned dancers in Europe to interact with dancers in the USA in real-time using a custom-built telepresence system that projected the European dancer into visual proximity with the American dancer and vice versa. In this fashion two dancers were choreographed dancing in unison despite being apart. Burtonwood used a computational drawing system to produce a number of different responses to the video stills further abstracting the subject to experiment with implied motion, gesture and form.

(Extracted from the artists' statement)