Friday, September 9, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
More Studio Play - Make It Glow On 'Em
You may have noticed that in my ongoing investigation of artificial light I have developed a relationship with the old 'outer glow' Photoshop effect. It's just so...
Anyways, stemming from that practice, I have begun to experiment with glow sticks, as they exist IRL, yet possess that outer glow associated with fluorescence. They are quite the ball of metaphor when you think about light as an analogy for truth. They are human engineered, user activated, temporary, come in many colors; the list can go on.
These are some very basic, preliminary sketches. Eventually, I want to actually make some 'permanent' versions to be shown in a gallery or show; maybe some '2-D' and some '3-D'. They would be designed beforehand, activated and constructed the day of the show (glued together on panels I suppose), then left to fade away over the course of the show, leaving only the lifeless mass as artifact.
Besides a metaphor for truth or enlightenment, I also sort of see this as a commentary on the popularization of ephemeral art like performance and relational aesthetics versus the imperative for salable goods in the gallery.
For the most part, these are not Photoshopped, i.e., no special filters or effects have been used to alter the images, just a little cropping and minimal color correction.
The first five were taken in total darkness. All are arranged on white illustration board, 20"x30".
The one below was taken in dim lighting.
The one below was taken the next day, in full light, after the chemical reaction that causes the glow had run its course.
Anyways, stemming from that practice, I have begun to experiment with glow sticks, as they exist IRL, yet possess that outer glow associated with fluorescence. They are quite the ball of metaphor when you think about light as an analogy for truth. They are human engineered, user activated, temporary, come in many colors; the list can go on.
These are some very basic, preliminary sketches. Eventually, I want to actually make some 'permanent' versions to be shown in a gallery or show; maybe some '2-D' and some '3-D'. They would be designed beforehand, activated and constructed the day of the show (glued together on panels I suppose), then left to fade away over the course of the show, leaving only the lifeless mass as artifact.
Besides a metaphor for truth or enlightenment, I also sort of see this as a commentary on the popularization of ephemeral art like performance and relational aesthetics versus the imperative for salable goods in the gallery.
For the most part, these are not Photoshopped, i.e., no special filters or effects have been used to alter the images, just a little cropping and minimal color correction.
The first five were taken in total darkness. All are arranged on white illustration board, 20"x30".
The one below was taken in dim lighting.
The one below was taken the next day, in full light, after the chemical reaction that causes the glow had run its course.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Playing around with drawing and installation
Here are some shots from this past weekend when I hung a few drawings at SCAD for Martha Wittington's ArtMerge with MocaGA. I had fun actually making installation for once, even if it was short-lived. There were also some glow-sticks on the ground, but I cropped them out of the photos - I didn't like them in hindsight. I used the color DVD from my old piece "Levitas", and projected it from outside of the gallery onto the frosted glass, which left an amazing color haze over the drawing. If the angles/perspective looks off, the installation is in a weird 'flat-iron' shaped corner of the space.
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| Detail of the drawing's reflection back over the projection - talk about Meta-Platonics |
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
A couple more drawings
Another sampling. I'm not sure if Bivouac is done, but I am definitely stumped by it for now. Also, Slope is tentatively titled, I'm also thinking Slope Floats, but whatever, probably not.
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| Bivouac sharpie on paper, 50"x38" (2011) |
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| Slope ink and color pencil on paper 14x17 (2011) |
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
What? I thought I quit making Art!
New drawings - YAY!
I have been thinking a good deal lately about our relationship to the screen, and how it has changed over time. I don't have the concept clear yet, but it as something to do with our obsession with the glowing screen, possibly as a surrogate for the comfort and wonderment caused by fire. Fire is a multifaceted entity that could be thought of as natural or artificial, depending on how it was ignited. In that sense, I see these drawings as an extension of my installation work that focuses on the implications of human-initiated (artificial) light sources.
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| currently untitled ink and color pencil on parchment, 14x17 (2011) |
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| currently untitled ink and color pencil on paper, 18x24 (2011) |
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| currently untitled ink and color pencil on paper, 18x24 (2011) |
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Work from the RISD Graduate Thesis Show 2009
A big thank you to all my friends and family who supported me over the past two years (and before).
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Here is my latest sculptural offering. I'm not quite sure what is going on, but I know I'm experimenting with surface and movement in a way I'm not used to. Right now its stuck somewhere in a [(Pollack/Reinhardt/Rauschenburg) + (something else)/ water droplets] place, which isn't all bad, but not really my intention. I am still dealing with ideas of nothingness, phenomenology, and physics though - presence/absence, light/dark, levitation, gravity, electrons and photons, etc. Definitely gonna need more investigation.
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