Horizon

'Horizon' UV printed acrylic, Jacquard tapestry, and digital composite on aluminum, 40" x 16"

Light from the world is focused through a lens on to a sensor grid. The resulting information is process and manipulated in various ways and then rendered in several materials: tapestry, digital prints and translucent patterns in glass. Only when viewed by a person, can it all be reassembled as a scene within a mind: the only place anything is ever experienced as far as I know.

Shore Patterns

'Shore Patterns' UV printed acrylic, Jacquard tapestry, and digital composite on aluminum, 40" x 16"

I’ve used the rail system again to float plexigas with UV printed imagery over the background images. I enjoy how this piece makes you continually shift what you see. Up close you see the structure: the weave of the tapestry and the graphic lines printed on the plexi. Stand back and you see through the surface to the water image in the tapestry. The lines become waves and the clouds come in to focus. For me, it changes all the time. It never settles into a single image.

‘Short Term Forecast’ – on rails…

I’ve made special rails that allow me to float transparent images over the base surfaces.

This replaces the aluminum hardware I used initially.

Seeing becomes complicated in these different material planes, surfaces, reflections – and the illusionary space behind them.

Bewilderment

Bewilderment is state of mind worth visiting now and then. Things are not as they seem.

Controlled Hallucination

Long ago, I first came across the idea in John Berger - that seeing is not objective or passive; that it is something that happens not in the eyes, but in the mind.

I was excited to read neuroscientist Anil Seth's new book 'Being You' wherein he explores not only the latest discoveries of how perception works but new ideas about how consciousness itself arises.

Consciousness and perception have been the subject of philosophical speculation for millennia. Modern science is still far from supplying a complete accounting of how this all works. We don’t seem to be anywhere near explaining this ‘hard problem’. The most fundamental and ubiquitous experience of being alive remains shrouded in mystery!

Near Term Forecast

‘Near Term Forecast' is a mixed media piece: digital composite image on aluminum, woven Jacquard tapestry, and uv printed weather map on plexiglas.

Sky of Blue, Sea of Green

Dark blue clouds heavy with the possibility of rain. White birds gleam as they cross shafts of light. iridescent green water churns below.

The cloud images have been printed on metal, the water has been woven in heavy fabric and above these two surfaces there is a transparent layer carrying an abstracted water pattern. As in the natural landscape, the eye cannot rest; the mind cannot fix the ever-shifting scene into a single image.

Sky Glass Water Rain Water Glass Sky

Sky reflected in glass reflected in water.

Looking down at a puddle through to the reflection of a building. The reflected windows in their turn reflect a clouded sky. Rain, falling from these clouds, make these imperfect mirrors shiver and dissolve.