Sculpture
Rainbow Mountain
14 x 5 x 5 inches, Acrylic on Balsa foam
Idea of a form and its information (akin to DNA) simultaneously growing and dying, resulting in a phase change - ascending and descending numbers, mirrored across a series of stacked cubes, which increase in total height as each cube added becomes smaller.
Shape of War
Dimensions variable, Acrylic, gesso on board
Graph of war casualties from 3 American Wars, connected into a loop and covered with random numbers in an alternating pattern of black and white.
Robin Hood
44 x 28 x 3 inches, Acrylic, gesso on board
For this piece, I redrew 3 line graphs that originally described trends of income inequality in America. I expanded them, cut them out, and connected them into a larger line. I then painted an alternating pattern of text onto this 3-dimensional graph. The text is a transcription of a conversation I had with Cleverbot (an online artificial intelligence bot) about the idea of a modern Robin Hood. I asked the bot about the idea of reversing the flow of money in the US. We began to talk about empathy in the human brain, which has been found to reside in the anterior insular cortex. Cleverbot believed that humans are incapable of true empathy. The piece floats in a state of suspension.
Strange Loop
29 x 13 x 11 inches, Acrylic ink, gesso on epoxy
My conversation with an AI chatbot, painted across a mobius strip-like loop. The conversation kept looping back to the beginning, as it does on the surface of the sculpture. I thought of this as a strange loop, which according to by Douglas Hofstadter is a cyclic structure that goes through several levels in a hierarchical system. It arises when, by moving only upwards or downwards through the system, one finds oneself back where one started. A tangled hierarchy is a hierarchical consciousness system in which a strange loop appears.
Ouija
28 x 11 x 5 inches, Acrylic in on paper and plaster
Form derived from movements of the Ouija.
Curved
9 x 28 x 4 inches, Acrylic, gesso on board
Graph of future predictions of financial growth and decline in the US, covered with chess notations from a match played in the 1972 World Championships between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky.
Equals
31 x 9 x 3 inches, Acrylic and ink on board
Curve
30 x 4 x 5 inches, ink and acrylic on balsa foam
EquiUmbra
Acrylic and colored pencil on gessoed aluminum rod, 6 feet tall
45 degree tilting rod painted with winning lottery numbers (Mega Millions) from the past year. I hoped the lean would seem fixed between falling and rising, as the winning numbers represent a transformative data set that could elevate or burden a life. The title, EquiUmbra, refers to the time when the angle (altitude) of the sun is equal to 45 degrees. At this moment, there are equal amounts of light and shadow - the exact transition point/angle between day and night.
Future Rods
72 x .5 x .5 inches , acrylic ink on painted aluminum
Text adorning each rod is comprised of prophecies of the future (made by a range of people from different fields) written in ascending and descending, alternating patterns.
Self Talking Branch
Acrylic, Collage on Wood / Branch
I painted the branch according to the natural divisions that arose from its growth. I then measured each section, changed the measurements into letters, and derived words from these coded measurements. I then cut out and attached the letters of the final word onto the branch structure, as it its own physical properties were causing it to speak.
Self Talking Branch 2
Acrylic, Collage on Wood / Branch
I painted the branch according to the natural divisions that arose from its growth. I then measured each section, changed the measurements into letters, and derived words from these coded measurements. I then cut out and attached the letters of the final word onto the branch structure, as it its own physical properties were causing it to speak.
Self Talking Branch 3
Acrylic, Collage on Wood / Branch
I painted the branch according to the natural divisions that arose from its growth. I then measured each section, changed the measurements into letters, and derived words from these coded measurements. I then cut out and attached the letters of the final word onto the branch structure, as it its own physical properties were causing it to speak.
Shattered
Acrylic on Floor
Floor drawing based on patterns from county by county color codes throughout the US, illustrated in the latest census. I used patterns of poverty, education, living standards, and migration trends from the latest census. I traced the patterns of the highest and lowest counties from each category.
Multiplication & Division
Vinyl on Floor
Floor drawing based on patterns from county by county color codes throughout the US, illustrated in the latest census map. I used patterns of poverty, education, living standards, and migration trends from the latest census. I traced the patterns of the highest and lowest counties from each category from the map, cut those shapes out of vinyl, and applied them to the floor in a new pattern.
The Head and The Tail
Acrylic ink on floor
Notations from the final chess match between Gary Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue. The gap in the circle was left when Kasparov forfeited, defining a momentous shift from the dominance of human intellect into AI intelligence and strategy.
Six on the Floor
Dice
Arrangement of dice on floor, distance and placement arranged according to US census data. Meant to look as if tossed and randomly derived, yet the placement and numbers shown on each die allude to the wealth disparity found across the country.
Cluster
Dice that I found and collected over 7 years, mounded and attached
Future Relic 1 (alternate view)
Acrylic on Foam Mounted on Wall
Future Relic 1
Acrylic on Foam Mounted on Wall
The Day After
Ink on Paper
The day after a "mysteriously" drastic drop in the stock market - its graph cut out and connected into a loop.
The Mess
Ink on Paper
Series of graphs from different sources (war casualties from US engagements, historic stock market fluctuations, temperature change, etc.) cut out and connected.