In The Vein of Humanity

14 ft. painting...
Spray paint and video projection...

An environment and depth was created through the manipulation of material(using aspects of paint and creating the illusion of space/depth)in which the kinetic image existed... constantly in flux and flowing through this space... which was maintained by machine... in which the materiality (or lack there of) of this video projection became extremely important...

The form of washers and nuts become extremely mimetic of that of red bloods...
In substituting the smallest element of machinery and having them stand in as one of the smaller elements of life creates an interesting juxtaposition ...

Uncomfortable Entrance (imponderabilia redone)

Performance piece with Ben done one 10.11.2007 during the exhibition opening for Art Happens!
A take off of Marina Ambromavic's performance in 1977 with Ulay...

Diaphanous of Desire

Experiential embodiment of emotion, inner tumult, confession, and overwhelming frustration.

Video and audio that is projected on the piece can be experienced Here

Collaboration

the story of awry

Creative Explorations with a Spark plug

I have become increasingly obsessive compulsive with using a spark plug as a reoccurring motif... it is a play off of Francis Picabia's portrait of a young american girl in the state of nudity.... in which he claimed a mechanical drawing of a spark-plug to be the portrait of a young girl ... which begins to draw connections and become reminiscent of the classical nude...?

mechanical preproduction

Naturality fit or extruding within a form

Exploration in aggrandizing an image, iconogoraphy

Anecdotal; death to a spark plug; post modernist approach