Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

Very often when I'm taking photographs of architecture I take note of the interstitial space between buildings (or sculptures), and how they frame the sky to the edges of the photograph.   In 2015, I experimented by cutting the shapes on a laser cutter with translucent blue Plexiglas. The next phase of the project will involve mounting them within frames. In certain ways, they are an homage to Joseph Cornell’s cut paper silhouettes as in “Varietes de Mineralogie”  or the silhouettes in the Ledger Book of William Bache . In terms of human universals they are a "classification of space"  *** Prototypes with 4 blue LEDs powered by 2 AA batteries. Since they draw so little power, they can stay lit for months, although they progressively fade, which is an interesting "happy accident". A "sunset" frame would be interesting.    VIEW MORE IMAGES Also see Architectural Deconstruction If you would like to follow this project, please subscribe to my Mailing Lis...

16.25 x 22.25, acrylic on paper $300 A study for another work in my text-art series, now appropriated as an homage to the sometimes droll conceptual work of the late John Baldessari. I am using the following color classification, loosely based on the sequences of color in the color spectrum: A: Red C: Red D: Orange E: Orange F: Yellow H: Yellow L: Green O: Green R: Blue S: Blue T: Blue W: White In terms of generativity, you could work with the hash value of the string "Words Face The Wall" (DC28A134DEFC289CA6B01B3ACA6D162D). The unique values in the string are: 0 1 2 3 4 6 8 9 A B C D E F ...on which various attributes can be assigned, such as color, material, etc, and it need not be text-based. This is the process I used in my Hash Art series. This is no different from using scales or other rules or rudiments in music, and a good example of borrowing a system from another domain as a metaphorical framework. Initially, the work was inspi...

Alliterative Haiku Cover Comps in black, white and red versions The idea for this book arose directly from the character limit constraints of Twitter in early 2015, when I began posting them under the #sixwords hashtag. They are not haiku per se, but use similar rules, in this case, three-word pairs in alphabetic order. Print Edition now available on Amazon . Rules: 1. All lower case 2. Re-use of words and couplets allowed 3. Overlap in alphabet allowed, e.g. yza, zab 4. Ampersands and hyphens allowed 5. Sound-alike consonants allowed, e.g. "fine photography", and their spoonerisms "phine fotography" 6. Merged words are allowed, and can be formated per the following: northkorea, NorthKorea *** Color System under the Black White and Red series of works: I have systematized the font colors and page borders to correspond with ranges of letters as follows: #2015 #classificati...

Macrophage V 13.5 x 19 x .75, mixed media on panel. Fifth in the series ("M5").  $555 Inquire Possible Universals, with associated pages in the CONTINUA-TION book: Continua (119) Intertwining (111) Logical notion of part/whole (177) Numerals (counting) (132) Tying material (90) #2019 #text #texture #neodada #layered

 Results (Google Search Art) (2012)   As neural networks become smarter, so will image search results. When I began the project in 2012, image search results weren't that smart: images that appeared in Results were associated with the subject matter only to the degree that they were in the source web page. Since that point, search has become more sophisticated, whereby a keyword wouldn't necessarily need to be in the text in order for it to appear in the Results. For example, it could have a notion of what constitutes "beauty".  Almost 10 years later, artists are using AI to generate things like "Averaged Faces" and grouping them in grids. *** System latency causes color placeholder images to appear in Google search results, extracted from common pixel information in the images. It is interesting from a conceptual standpoint, as the search terms produce a color range as a result: Algorithms abide by Universals as well.

Interval Cubes Acrylic on panels P.O.R.    Inquire Download symbol (block) grid. (Adobe Illustrator) 12 cubes (6x6x2) for each interval in the chromatic scale using only black, white and red. Can be displayed on a shelf, or hung on a wall. Each cube is currently prepared for shelf display with felt on the back edges to prevent cubes from scraping. The cubes can also be tiled together in different ways like building blocks to teach chords and intervals. A very unique work done in the style of Josef Albers or Alexander Calder. Work is fully documented on its own website for information and archival purposes. Cube 1. Unison Cube 2. Minor Second Cube 3. Major Second Cube 4. Minor Third Cube 5. Major Third Cube 6. Perfect Fourth Cube 7. Diminished Fifth Cube 8. Perfect Fifth Cube 9. Minor Sixth Cube 10. Major Sixth Cube 11. Minor Seventh Cube 12. Major Seventh A symbol grid in Adobe Illustrator [Download .ai file] Drag symbols (blocks) and rearrange/rota...

Continua: Ordering as a Cognitive Pattern (2017) As a Universal, art ideally should have decorative qualities. But the growing list of Universals derived from the book "Human Universals," includes many alternates. The one that has most interested me is "Continua (Ordering as a Cognitive Pattern)". This is something that nicely applies to photography as an "Art Universal". Prints from the book are now available through Finerworks : Mind the Gap View at Issuu: View at Scribd:

FXD 24"x 24"x 2" Mixed Media (acrylic, stencils, hardware, Plexiglas) on wood panel $500 As a part of the Text series, FXD is a truncation of "Fixed". The underlying metaphor is "industry", and like Anachronistic Time Inversion, incorporates video footage of manual skilled labor (welding, carpentry, ironwork). The piece is 'fixed' in the sense that it was continuously in a state of revision or repair, then fixed in final form. All works of art in a sense are in a state of being "fixed" until committed to some final stage. All the "tools" used (such as stencils) were incorporated right into the work. Documentation (Slides, Video): https://sites.google.com/site/fxdartwork/home More about the work: On the meaning of "x": Semiotician Morse Peckham in his mid-60s book Man's Rage For Chaos posits several meanings: "It is, of course, a configurational sign, but its meaning is determined by...