Interdisciplinary Artist and Educator
An ongoing series…applying themes and/or rules to directly guide the outcome of the image/object—such that can be described with the words: irrational, negative mass, impossible structure, broken-into-one. The forms manifest in drawing, collage, video and sculpture, commonly presented side-by-side in a single exhibition.
The People’s Stone @ POLDRA Project
This series—developed-in-mind for the exhibition Zen with a Kickstand—depicts visual patterns, codes and text born of our contemporary digital age, and set within and among forms appreciated for their naturalistic authenticity, their spiritual references or aesthetic purity (the Chinese scholars rock). Ranging from abstraction to anonymous silhouettes, this series most often depicts pixel-mosaic-filled stone forms drawn on paper using graphite, charcoal and/or ink pen.
Concerning the series titled the Logic Stones, and other works referred to as Markers, I attempt to create a relationship with nature and/or natural forms based on a subjective manipulation of said form or body, utilizing draftsmanship and detail to imply a reality that is altogether fictional. These are objects and environments that reflect nature and technology’s in/direct effect on the human condition, musings on how an artwork manipulates vision—how we see or don’t see the image/object itself—or how an artwork is looking back at us. As well, visualizing the middle-point between the natural and digital worlds—a type of muge…what could even be considered a ‘loving embrace’ of opposites.
Multiplicity. You, me…and them.
The aim of this body of artwork is to create windows and doorways, namely frames, onto abstracted and other-worldly panoramas. Viewing the artworks in this series demands a competence in navigating or orienteering through the fictional “scenery,” much like cognitive mapping or mental mapping. Links are also made to the psychology of perception, particularly to fixed-point perspective, virtual environments (both in reference to digital worlds and dreams) and viewer positioning.
Metus mollis lorem quisque risus enim curabitur, litora curae maecenas pulvinar elementum nec potenti, eleifend nulla odio. Images for this post are kindly provided by Dopludo Collective.