I can’t sculpt, can’t climb the scaffold, or twist the wire, or hold the fragile optic with only one hand, on account of my bum left arm and wrist. But I can type one-handed.
Let me take this opportunity to type, one-handed from the studio, beginning with a photo collection I’ve been maintaining for a few years that I call Looks Like. To my continuing amazement, I frequently find a picture or view of natural phenomena that looks like a piece of art I have already made. It confounds me. You’ll have to take my Joan of Arc word for it. I ran the collection by a couple of artist friends who thought I should share it. I countered that it would make me look crazy, and both of them assured me I already do. These are unaltered photos.
Looks Like
the Venus Transit,
which I watched from the Adler Planetarium, eerily brought a recent painting moment to life when the brush jumped and made a mark on my orange field several weeks before the transit
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I was fairly amazed to find this picture of lighting at an Icelandic volcano:
some short time after finishing this painting, which I then titled to match my attempt to pronounce the volcano’s name, Iphegenia Falls
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Current Z
The story of Current Z inspired me to formalize Looks Like by keeping the images in a folder instead my head. I had just finished photographing a piece that arrived so fast I felt hot-wired by Muse for 9 hours. When I finally sat down on the floor to organize the photos, the laptop slipped, and in a crazy bumbling ballet of keyboard and falling, by chance or by magic, my fingertips managed to save the photos, and name the folder ‘current z’ no caps, thank heavens. I decided to investigate the term, and bumped into this lab image measuring electromagnetic phenomenon that creates auroras – and its track-stopping similarity to the shadow cast by the object I had just created. This incident also supported my growing curiosity about the shadows my work was casting. here’s the object, current z.
and a detail shot of its shadow
and the lab photo I peeled off the internet so it’s tiny:
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this studio snapshot of some prior mesh sculpture
came to mind when i bumped into these graphic renderings of the Mandelbrot sequence.
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playing around with iPhoto’s x-ray look on an enlarged photo of the wire knot mass of a 2011 installation,
I was not subtly reminded of neurons
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here’s a snapshot of one of the earliest Shadow Matrixes, titled Blind Spot for reasons of its own.
later, I google image searched blind spot and found this image of an eye with a blind spot
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when I saw the SEM image I was lucky to be able to take myself at the GSU microscopy lab of goat hoof,
I thought of a recently-finished painting
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this Sasquatch-sighting-quality snapshot shows my screen with the fractal rendering in front of the painting it reminds me of:
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I used to make porcelain sculptures, and when i saw this image of a solar flare
I thought of this little 2005 porcelain piece. note the gold dot repeating as well…
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thank you for visiting the carnival trailer, watch your step, and have a nice day