I am continuing to construct walls with vertical bricks. These two are still what I would consider to be in the testing phase. The next step is to go larger, more distressed, and to recess the mortar.
Continuing with walls
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Untitled Wall Test 1
The Future Is Right Behind Your Eyelids 2011
This is a collaborative multimedia installation. As you enter the space, you are tracked and activate a sound collage. Your image is captured and projected into a portal above the doorway. The flickering light in the center is both enchanting and off-putting, and casts more than light over the forest mural mounted to the semi-circular wall. The electrical cord that attaches the work to the grid, is a repeated phrase. “Could I live in a space time structure corresponding to this reality?”
Free Radicals (or) Entropy
Remote Indoor Greenhouse
Proposal For Remote Indoor Greenhouse, 2011
An abandoned air hangar, in a barren location, it’s roof is removed and replaced with ETFE film. Inside, vertical hydroponic rotary gardens tower before you, shadowed from the sun by hanging trough planters cascading overhead. Ultimately, the cubic footage would be maximized with more towers, until the entire space is utilized, and teeming with foodstuffs.
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Personal Reflections on Generative Perceptual Phenomenon
I have been frequently infatuated with Hollywood cinema, for as long as I can remember. My parents, the incredibly nurturing folks they were, sensed this passion, and sent me to the campus of Harvard when I was 12 years old. I was the youngest in a summer film program put on by the New York Film Academy. I was thrust into a six-week intensive course, and learned the ropes of filmmaking, as well as having exposure to dozens of new creators. It was then and there that I fell in love with the idea of becoming a filmmaker. In high school, I had the incredible opportunity to drop math and foreign language my junior year in order to focus on the Arts. Photography and Cinematography were my passions, but after taking an AP Advanced Studio Art course, I learned of a much different Art world. I learned of The San Francisco Art Institute, I applied and was accepted in 2004. It was there, while taking courses in the New Genres, Photography, and Film departments that I became interested in a much different capability of film/video, as Gunning would call it, the aesthetic of attraction. Perhaps a major, and until reading Tom Gunning’s article an undetected shift in my art practice was toward the aesthetics of attraction. Continue reading
“Afinial” – working title
This work is a result of my revelatory release from expository form. In allowing ideas to flow more freely, i have approached the materials of my past works with a more sensual hand. I could best relate the paradigm shift as transposing a research paper into a poem.
With this allowance, the piece is speaking to me in ways my other works have not. I have created an object referent of structure, infrastructure, construction, breath, decay, pollution, life, death. This unsorted read is a relief. Rather than stretching these materials, I am allowing them to speak for themselves. Steve Edwards taught me of glass that you mustn’t force the material into a form, but let the material lead the way, merely guiding the path it chooses. This symbiotic relationship with glass could be applied to all media; instead of attempting to force specific meaning through semiotics (a virtual impossibility), choose materials who’s relationship and potential is reciprocal with ones understood intentions, without making them explicit.
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- The first iteration of the project
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- This is a detail shot: Stucco, Lath, Colored Vinyl, Plywood, Neon
Afinial, 2011
12″x56″x14″
Plywood, Neon, Colored Vinyl, Stucco, Lath, PVC
Lost in these photographs is a small ammount of smoke that wafts inside the sculpture, dissipating before it reaches the top of the piece.
The images include a detail shot of the sculpture, as well as an earlier iteration of the project, with a bucket, and exposed wires.
Cataclyst Habitat 1
The fulcrum of my thinking about the future of the human species is expressed in my Manifesto, which concludes that man has so irreversibly exploited the planet, that we have reached a tipping point, which will propel us towards an inevitable apocalypse. In an attempt to somehow elucidate these conclusions, I created Cataclyst Habitat 1, which is an interactive sculpture that to a degree successfully evokes the suspense of this collapse. Entering the space, the viewer is transported into a sensibility—a why and how. Continue reading
Cataclyst Greenhouse Project
Cataclyst Greenhouse Project
To be carried down crest and through valley, to gaze into the sand of time beneath would be self revealing. The crystalline holds a truth known only to everything. I peer through it. I misuse my senses. I can see the future through the past but only with eyes of the present. So work with me, or against me, but work for yourselves in this discovery. Engage as I have created for us all. Engage, For the end may be closer than we can feel. Exercise to sense the impending. Obliterate the world you seek, or find an obliterated world.
The Cataclyst Greenhouse Project Was a Success!
By the 4th of July, 2009 The Cataclyst Greenhouse Project was in full effect. Chris had written and tested the final program, and we were ready for a small opening for friends and family. The project was powered up, and the structure illuminated. It was a thing of beauty, as the breeze gently moved the plastic, the lights would respond. As we moved about the space, the lights responded and interacted. The reactions of the sensors emoted a controlled chaos. The pulsing ticks of the relays created a harmony shared by the unity of the space, the piece and the viewer were one. But as the piece enveloped the human viewer, it also enveloped the wind, and in so doing, spoke for the wind, and shone for the wind. You could SEE the wind sing. I shot over an hour of documentary footage of the piece, and am currently in the process of editing the entire seven months of photos, notes, and videos into a presentable video that will encapsulate the project. In the mean time, I will be presenting short clips, as well as responses to the piece on this website for all to enjoy.
Starting of course with the destruction…
What took months to construct, came down in a mere two and a half hours, which is now condensed into four minutes…