Works on paper
From various series and across media including prints… and, at the bottom of the page, some conceptual paper pieces. Click to see each larger or refer to the separate series pages.
Prints, from The Window photo series, and from Weatherworks series (many more in both, see Menu or some more HERE):
Weatherworks series (outdoor installations on snow), 10 seasons:
The Window series (24/7/365/1 photo series, individual photos and grouped sets):
CRISPR wall sculptures, 48 x 40 x 2”
Re: Worked series (24 x 18”, acrylic on archival paper):
Shifted and Drifted series. Click to see more under Paintings: Shifts
Spliced series. Click to see more under Paintings: Genetically Modified
Crystallized surface series. Click to see more under Paintings: Transformers
Text series. Click to see more under Paintings: Word Works
Collage series. Click to see more under More: Collages
Photograms. Click to see more under More: Cyanotypes
Conceptual Works on Paper:
In A Myriad of Ages It Will Not Be Exhausted
If from a stick a foot long you every day take the half of it, in a myriad of ages it will not be exhausted. -Mohist School of Names (China, 479 BCE)
The work is continuously destroyed
This painting is cut in half every ten years. Each division makes it a new artwork, and starts the clock on its next destruction. The original state becomes unknown, as the smaller and smaller pieces are placed in new positions. All future states are also unknown, existing as probabilities, potentials, or impossibilities.
Now or never
Each painting can only be seen in each physical ‘now’ of the viewer, a unique experience in time’s arrow — ink in a cup of water cannot be unstirred.
As it is halved it expands
Each individual piece created from the divisions will be separately framed for exhibition. The height and width of the entire work will paradoxically increase in size over time. The painting divided into hand-size sections will fill a wall, thumbnail-sized parts multiple walls, confetti-sized components an entire room, pinhead-sized pieces a wing in a museum…
In a myriad of ages it will not be exhausted
The painting, always halved, becomes infinite: a Zeno paradox.
IOTA is a single artwork that exists across vast geographical distances. One large painting divided into discrete pieces — all connected by a linear and organic shapes and color — which are distributed around the world. Each single piece a standalone work but is a part of something bigger. To exhibit the painting (i.e. for a biennale), the network of owners send in their pieces to the location of the show. After the exhibition the pieces are returned, to be sent in again later for subsequent shows. The artwork is a diaspora, a flow of data, a murmuration moving across borders, cultures, ideologies and time. It is about networks, connections and relationships.
Each time it is shown the work will be different. Participation levels will change and pieces will be missing, with voids left to highlight those absences. (See above). The aura of the work increases as a web of narrative builds as the pieces travel across the world, change ownership, become lost, or found; the painting changed by personal or even disruptive world events.
The work will likely never be seen in its entirety. It will exist in complete form only in the imagination — an analogue virtual painting.
Each piece is uniquely folded, but is connected horizontally by white lines, vertically by organic shapes and lines, diagonally by graphite lines, and sectionally by drifts of color.
Read and see more about IOTA under Paintings: IOTA
