Monday, August 1, 2011

I shoot most days. Moving forward I will share some images from these walks that I am happy with or wonder about but that will most likely not be included in the polished portfolio projects on my website.

Duality

I tentatively titled this project 'Coming and Going' and decided to limit myself for a little while to the use of two identical, 1", circular mirrors in each image. Structuring/finding the dialogue between the two mirrors and then the mirrors and whatever surrounds them is enough material to work with while this branch of inquiry develops.

Monochromes, shape, circles, twins, separation, boundaries, edges, trying with the images in the series to create a space for the viewer to knit together the relationship between the three primary elements (mirror 1, mirror 2, the surrounding space). Positioning the mirrors, my body, and the camera to get to the image. Moving around a lot and noticing how small changes have a large impact on what I see in the viewfinder.

More mirrors

Using mirrors to collect, capture, and compose a faceted image in the container of a single frame (again).

Transparency, grids, layers, text, lines.

Disease Cell Recreation

Line and Point: Disease Cell arrived at Curious Matter looking less like a sphere and more like a pile of toothpicks interspersed with bits of styrofoam- totally destroyed! Check out Raymond and Arthur's documentation of its appearance upon arrival (above, top row). Raymond and Arthur (artists and owners of Curious Matter) were kind enough to reassemble the piece so it will still be in the exhibition. 

Poison Evite

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Opening Soon!

The piece represented above, Line and Point: Disease Cell, will be on view at Curious Matter in Jersey City, New Jersey as part of their Poison exhibition April 5 - May 17, 2009. 

This piece explores growth and collection. The blob growths/collections of value points at the end of each stick function both individually, as tiny, singular paintings on a stick, and as individual points within the whole. I wanted to build a spherical painting using a three-dimensional structure and to explore the dialogue between line and point in physical space. Is the piece linear or spherical, a painting or a sculpture? 

I've worked mostly two-dimensionally since 2003. I started to get interested in what was going on on both the front and the back of the work I was making and saw the sphere as a way to explore that interest. 

I connected the idea of poison with disease. At age 11 I was diagnosed with Osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease predominantly characterized by frequent fractures. Implicit and explicit attitudes against disease and disorder abound. Is disease a fully negative, poisonous thing or are there points when it can be generative? The piece functions as a large-scale model of an imaginary cell or molecule. 

I'm working on a Line and Point series. The goal is to make at least 20 pieces exploring the idea. 

Line and Point: Disease Cell, Styrofoam, wood, paint, 5 x 5 x 5".