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SILVER SPRINGS 2007-2012
The Silver Springs studio was 2000, mostly dark, square feet in which I prepared for a show with my collaborator, Gillian Brown. It was also a time when many parts of my life became unglued. It then became a place to both live and work and move on. I left video installation work behind and began a long period of private exploration.
The Show we were preparing was call Cosmosis, reflecting a deep interest in science on both of our parts. The titled hinted at a connection between biology and physics. I had initially been a physics major as an undergraduate and that interest has always been part of my work. The image below was from a piece to be called "Slice" which referenced the famous little book Flatland which described the "slice" of upper dimensions traced on lower dimensions, opening the imagination to what kind of an imprint a fourth dimension might leave on our world. In "Slice" a single image was splayed across a set of parallel sheets of translucent gauze, all in motion.
At work on Slice
Another video piece I workd on for that show was called Cycle, It consisted of a bicycle laying on the ground as if discarded. A projection onto the bicyle looked like the shadow of the bicycle with the wheel spinning. I will be putting up a video of that piece in the video section shortly.
A shot of my lifelong friend and sometime collaborator, Gillian Brown as we check out the space we are preparing to show in. At the same time that this show was cancelled, castrophe struck my personal life. I stepped away from the art world and continued my practice in private until 2021, when I began to venture forth again.
As I moved away from video and back toward painting, my primary tools were the computer and a large fromat printer. I straddled the physical and digital realms often melding physical material with photographic replicas melding these realities. This has become a persistent strategy There are no projections in this image. The images that appear illuminated were printed on paper.
The strategy of melding physical materials with digital manipulation really began earlier in the Millenium Center.
This studio was a place of dramatic lighting and dramatic life changes. Dramatic lighting continues to interest.
I continued to play with digitally altering the material world, combining "stuff" and photographs to create illusions. My practice became a kind of private performance, often ephemeral. I still occasionally sandwich myself between these realms.
I exited this stage in 2012, departing for Fairfield Iowa where caregiving and breadwinning became part of my practice. The next studio was in another old school building.