Aurora, Comet, Cloud Chamber...

A sculpture, a volumetric line drawing, an installation, variable in scale. Permanent or ephemeral. The below sculpture “Aurora” is 144 x 60 x 48” and is adaptable in shape and size to various settings. Future works in this series are to be absolutely enormous (and colorful). The inspiration for this was auroras, comets, van allen belts, electricity, subatomic cloud chambers…

The work builds on the other sculptures seen below, all of which are single works created from mutliple component parts, the purpose of which is so they can be transformed in scale and shape, and meaning, (and ship easily.) Much of my work (paintings, sculpture, installation, and photo projects) is constructed this way - in no smal part to highlight the beautiful precarity of life (change always) and how larger systems are composed of unique discrete parts (the forest is the trees / the forest is not the trees, the individual is not the collective, etc).

Left: two separate paintings, each made of dozens recombinant panels, intermixed; Center: conduit tree, made from hundreds of component parts, Right: NDF, a work made from hundreds fo feathers, darts and needles. All are variable in scale and shape. The below works is a enormous and complex volumetric painting/sculpture, in development (and awaiting an ambitious curator).

Many more works like this on the site; poke around…

Mrs Major Tom

Mrs Major Tom, (the song-story, cont’d) over at my Substack. Please subscribe over there for ongoing posts about art, ideas, poetry plus! Here’s the link: MRS MAJOR TOM

Here’s an excerpt:
“Mrs Major Tom” is a song that continues the story of Major Tom (from David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and “Ashes to Ashes”) but now told from the point of view of the wife left at home.

The song has two versions; Sheryl Crow’s cover (acoustic), and the original edit (ambient electronic) that I released as K.I.A.. Here’s the lyrics:

You went up, so bright Tom
Thought my love was rocketing you along
When you didn't come back, and didn't come back
My nova heart collapsed to a black, black hole…

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Genetically Modified Found Wind (Acquired)

This work is from the ongoing CRISPR series. They are GMAs (gen mod art), with their visual DNA — taken from multiple paintings — sliced and spliced together to create new works. They are also digital/analog hybrids, in that each of the 1000s of spliced elements are discrete, like a pixel, but they are analog (exist IRL, cut from paper). The component pieces are meticulously placed together to create a cohesive abstract with a complex and optically-shifting surface with a type of retinal rhyme scheme.

This particular work is actually made from found wind from various geographical locations; that is, the wind (mountains, a lake, a prairie, etc) was used to drift the paint on various flat substrates, which were then chopped up and intermixed.

(Acquired recently by Canadian art collector).

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A recent work in the series CRISPR BLU (50 x 40 x 3”) , acrylic on archival paper. Thousands of hand-cut units of paper, each entirely unique. This particular work presents hyper-blue from the front (with silver edging), but at oblique angles multiple colors are subtly revealed (magentas, purples, oranges, reds).

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