10/22/2016
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9/8/2016
ACRONYMS , 9x27 inches, acrylic on cardboard, hardware, mounted on panel. (Plain black trim, but is suited for a larger cradled frame) An acronym is a way to "cut and tile" language into an easy-to-remember shortcut. Acronyms are either empowering, as a semiotic of a utopian ideal (such as AI) or intimidating and somewhat dystopian. As of now, AI is the current "signage" for the future.
9/4/2016
Green Channel (Study), 11 x 14 x 1 inches, acrylic, hardware and stencil on canvas board mounted on panel. (Cadmium red over sap green)
1/26/2016
The Vietnam coffee mug: This is an example where an object can remove all direct memory of the subject matter, banalized, but good in a way to put that time in world history to rest. Memories have faded so much, such that a mug is possible. The poignancy of this fact—that memories transform with time—is a frequent source of inspiration for artists and designers, who have long grappled with how to best convey the tenuous relationship between reality and perception.
11/12/2016
Mind The Gap J.G. Ballard's line from the novel High-Rise came to mind as being in the "gap": "Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty."
11/15/2016
"Ray", not because I know this stranger, but his face was aglow with the reflected light of a skyscraper on LaSalle Street. During the late fall and early winter, the angle of the sun is such that it reflects off of windows and becomes a kind of heliostat. I always wondered why cities didn't take advantage of this to daylight dark city canyons.
10/15/2016
Difference Mode Photo taken at the annual Open House Chicago tour, looking north down LaSalle Street from the roof of the Continental Bank Building. I call it the Blue Building, a "facadectomy" done in the postmodern 1980s. Most people dislike the building, but I think the contrast of old and what was then "new" is interesting.