Lee Barry Composition Diary

Anachronistic Time Inversion 30x30 mixed media assemblage on board $2000 or best offer 3/2023: Piece is modified with the placement of a red LED on the exclamation point. Since lower-frequency colors such as red draw such little power, they can stay illuminated for months on two AA batteries, although it gradually dims, which "illuminates" the idea of entropy. A conceptual piece about the layers of time, with recent layers inverted to lower layers. An upside-down digital clock was originally incorporated but has now been replaced with a digital picture frame that can be loaded with various images, again placed upside-down. The target is an homage to the Jasper Johns Targets, the letters 'OOT' to Ed Ruscha (OOF). '6-2-11' is actually a title from a piece of music based on melodic motifs built on a series of intervals of a 6th, 2nd, and 11th, but serves as a future date painted in stencil letters on the 'oldest' layer. The finish date is post-dated 2...