woven landscape . 2012
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Both sensitive and mechanical, these drawings record and synthesize elements from the vast skies and rural landscape encountered on an artist residency in eastern Germany.
surface scanned . 2011
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These methodical drawings imply specificity of content and scientific accuracy; however, the process used simultaneously abstracts the imagery depicted. While straddling representation and abstraction, they also contain a variety of historical referents, from antique engraving techniques through low-resolution computer imagery and contemporary printing technologies.
stacked lakes . 2011
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In these drawings, cartographic content collapses into stacks of outlines. While these works eliminate the familiar informational content of maps-scale, name and relative location-they generate their own, more intuitive and poetic form of information.
elemental index . 2010
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Conceived as a portfolio of documents, these intimately scaled drawings inventory my imagery and modes of transcription. As a set, they invite comparison and connection between the micro- and macroscopic, the atmospheric and the mechanical. These images reflect a universal desire to understand the world, and our compulsion to capture and collect our observations in that pursuit.
measuring the sky . 2010
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These images reveal a continued exploration of chaotic phenomena and the scientific and cartographic approaches of recording, measuring, translating and reproducing their behavior.
victorian science . 2009
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Étienne-Jules Marey's 19th century smoke machine forced smoke into parallel jets in an early visualization of aerodynamics. Scientific experiment utilizes geometry, miniaturization and photography in the pursuit of capturing and studying the otherwise disordered or fleeting. This displacement and unnatural containment of physical forces provides an intriguing source of abstraction.
antedeleuzian . 2009
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In these large drawings, diagrammatic content breaks down into its component marks, revealing otherwise hidden organic, rhizomal tendencies. Lines etched into singed paper flicker from the graphic to the illusionistic, conflating the informational diagram with pictorial representation.
mapping chaos . 2008
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Maps and diagrams represent the distillation of information, a necessarily narrow-minded concentration on single elements within a system in order to facilitate human comprehension and direct action. Diagrams create order, legibility and accessibility. In this work, I undermine the informational function of the diagram, disrupting the viewer's familiar mastery over information and exploring alternate conceptions of the informational.