jpeg via rising tensions
November 2009
New York Conversation
Dealer: "Do you think being young and good looking has anything to do with the success of an artist?"
Artist: "It shouldn't. For an actor or ballet dancer, maybe, but a painter isn't always going to be standing next to his work while it's being evaluated."
Dealer: "You're not a bad looking man. Are you saying this because deep in your heart you wonder if you could have been just a little better looking, you could have made it?"
Artist: "I'm saying it because it's true, unless you've found a way to graft an artist to a canvas as a permanent sex object."
"Fade Series: Cyan, No. 2"
"Fade Series: Cyan, No. 2" [mp3 removed]
A second piece with commercial trance loops run through a digital delay/chorus plugin called Cyan (a Reaktor effects instrument). A couple of live sessions were recorded and faded in/out. Sort of Richie Hawtin-esque, a fast syncopated march with phasing building to periodic climaxes.
slats (paper)
A photo was posted here that I took down--it was vibrating badly with the rubbery letters below--will repost later. A smaller version is the left panel of this diptych. A friend asked if I could print some CD covers for his band. I did, and then manually trimmed them using an X-acto knife. The trimmings were a stack of odd-sized paper "slats." It seemed a shame to just throw them away, so I arranged them on the floor in a rough, irregular grid. I photographed it from above, then converted the image to grayscale in Photoshop.
Just remembered I posted the photo already with some ascii and one-bit "graffiti" superimposed.
The image on the right side of the diptych is another set of slats. These were to hold a mattress in a bedframe. I bought them at a yard sale, thinking I might make something with them. I took a photo and added some graffiti to it. I still have the uncropped photo without the graffiti but haven't posted it yet. The wooden slats I threw away.