Two Grams of Ink
These are a selection of drawings that were each made by carefully measuring exactly two grams of ink. In some drawings I wanted the ink to behave naturally and in others to signify itself through language. In the remaining drawings I disconnected its nature to depict a wide range of human emotions, or recognizable personalities.
16” x 12” each
drawing ink on paper
100 Stolen Mona Lisas
This piece is a web page of 100 Mona Lisas. Because of the nature of images on the web, This web page merely references the image url. All the images are still living at there designated homes. Through this piece, I hope to touch on the notion of ownership and originality in our time.
Before and After
I have often wondered if I could create art by making the world a worse place than how I found it. I wanted to challenge the notion of art as beautification as well as making art through a negative act on the planet no matter how small.
Meaning Container
These blocks was an attempt to create identical objects that contained very different meanings. This work is an example of a series pieces that were measuring the properties of meaning.
12” x 11” x 11” concrete and screenprint
Search: Art
The imagery of the paintings were determined by searching “Art” in the Google search engine. I created paint-by-number templates from the images that come up on the search. In an attempt to disconnect myself from formal and “creative” issues, I paint and complete the paint-by-numbers in a kind of act of following the prescribed image that Google gave me.
Through out Modernism, the question of what art is has been asked many times. By defining art through purely quantifying and democratic means, I hope to bring a fresh angle on familiar themes such as artistic authorship, creative originality, and the role of painting in the digital age.
Hidden Messages
These three images each contain contrasting messages. Each message differs vastly in their dialogue and theme i.e. Genesis 1, the big bang theory, and a quote by Nichtze. The text and the background are intentionally displayed in the same color. I wanted to represent information that the eye cannot discern yet still exists in the digital realm.
36” x 36” each digital print on fabric
A Single Line
Much of my work deals with the tenuous and enigmatic nature of meaning. These drawings are created with a single line. At first thought such an innocuous thing as a line could describe such a wide range of meaning including images of violence, eroticism, or even the transcendent idea of God.
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Orientation is such a relative notion, in actual space orientation is completely arbitrary. Yet we as humans determine our world view in terms of up and down, good and bad.
Two Obstructed Self Portraits
These represent two self portraits. One in the subjective state the other in the objective state.
Mouth Diagrams
This installation breaks down the all so complicated meaning of god into its three different sounds. The piece includes the three sounds, and diagrams of the mouth creating those sounds.
