Images
Equilibrium and Flow (2005)
The photographs in Equilibrium and Flow capture multiple polytemporal movements and state changes that suspend and release the flow of time. A physical presence and activity is under way or perhaps just completed. A zooming in, a momentary coming-to-rest, a pause, a point of separation, of letting go, a translation within the energy-flow.
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Chaos Cloud (autumn), 2004 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Double Vortex (tunnelling), 2004 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Locked Cloud (hard water), 2004 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Map and Territory (attractor translating), 2004 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Prairie Wind (circulations), 2005 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Seabed (exchange of flows), 2004 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Supercell (heterogenesis), 2004 Lambda Photographic Print |
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Equilibrium and Flow Exhibtion Dolphin Gallery |
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Equilibrium and Flow Exhibtion Dolphin Gallery |
Map & Territory
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Map & Territory 1 These photographs document the tattered remains of a map of everything that once covered the territory of what is now west central Kansas. |
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Map & Territory 2 As of 2002, the effects of a continuing draught on this transition zone between water and land has revealed a vast territory, an underwater library of tablets that had been obscured below the map. |
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Map & Territory 3 The eroded texts are partially visible beneath the shreds of map. A transitional slow zone of entropy and negentropy is revealed. Each of these energy processes are operating in the same context at different time scales and reveal a dimension where graphic and material forms of writing are eroding and coming into being. |
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Map & Territory 4 The erased details of the map reveal geo-logical records of life and death, history and have nothing to do with ideal, or Cartesian representations of time and space. |
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Map & Territory 5 Go to the desert to learn about water. The eventspace is not about parallel or perpendicular realities as much as a heterogeneous fluid dynamics incorporating knowledge and experiences related to place as added dimensions of our worlds. As with TWM, peaks and valleys emerge and decline through the warping dimensional layers reflecting certain areas of information density. |
Found Alphabet
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Found Alphabet 001 Blinc has occurred so many times in this place. You can see littered corpses of other blincs, some being covered while others are uncovered by the sands of time. No one has attempted a classification of the different kinds as it is assumed that there are an infinite variety. However, fulgurites, carbon, wood, meteorite fragments, rare Chinese porcelin, feather, silver and dried cheese are some of the ones that I have personally seen. |
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Found Alphabet 002 The original set of twenty-four metal letters includes multiple instances of twelve different examples. There are two characters in the set that only appear once each and those are T and &. The complete set is: aaAcCeeeelLMMNNOooRRSST&. There are many possibilities within this set. After several hours of exploration the eventspace's clinamen was traced and spelled out. |
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Found Alphabet 003 Nine pieces of metal arc across the place of inscription and speak meteora. |
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Found Alphabet 004 The oracular powers of eros in the mind of matter. |
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Found Alphabet 005 Absent is present. |
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Found Alphabet 006 The wind has ripped open the clouds with letters mingled with sunken rocks, bits of wood, shell fragments and lightening. |
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Found Alphabet 007 & Salt Memo-ees. A rebus. |
Atoms & Eve
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Atoms & Eve 001 Atoms & Eve is a subset of the found alphabet. We see it here in one of its primary configurations. |
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Atoms & Eve 002 This is the dry dispelled state. |
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Atoms & Eve 003 Atoms & Eve underwater. |
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Atoms & Eve 004 Atoms & Eve dispersed, although still atoms and eve. |
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Atoms & Eve 005 Expanded version of Atoms & Eve. |
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Atoms & Eve 006 Atoms & Eve coalescing. |
Related Work
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Blindman's Map (1992) Photocollage with gold colored lead relief, 47 x 40.5 inches snowshovel and axe The alchemical humor of turning lead into gold relates to materialist transformations that run throughout TWM, WMPO and other works of this project. |
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Divers At The Granary (1992) Photocollage and lead relief, 72 x 49 inches Diver falls through several layers of grain (off-set, photographic, video) and time periods. Images occurred in different media over a 50-year period of clavidistas diving at the same site (La Quebrada) in Acapulco, Mexico. The materialist approach to atomic picture elements (grain) relates to the current imagery and ideas of this project. |
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Cascade (1996) Folded, painted photographs with layered lead text relief, 87 x 47 inches replay This minimal text of Cascade is a kind of engine where replay over can be read as finished and simultaneously, replay over can be read as repeat. Cascade is part of a series of folded photographs, some painted and others multiply-exposed. This work is also part of a series of works incorporating objects ambiguously legible under lead foil. In the case of Cascade, the object has been torn out and only an empty cartouche remains of what might have been concealed. The peaks and valleys of relief and erased or eroded layers (strata) relate to activities that take place in the stack of pages of The Writing Machine, the digital images, and other current works. |
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Ghost of Logos (1996) Erased, embossed photographs, 62 x 47 inches The writer digs deep into the earth, uncovering an abandoned alphabet of layered letters in a snowstorm. While falling, he brings back to the surface a collection of letters, a stolen herd of o's and x's in which the word ox appears several times ... an interrupted and scattered boustrophaedon writing from right to left and then turning back left to right, from night to day and winter into summer. |
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Sprung Trap (1996) Erased, embossed photograph with crushed camera, 37 x 87 inches The material properties of photography and writing are mapped in a schematic, blown-up diagrammaticological image. The apparatus, geology of the photographic strata and double versions of letters (relief and photographic chemical trace) are apparent in the thin medium. The folded photographs are further explorations into this n-dimensional eventspace. |
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Subterranean Shots (1992) Embossed photocollage, lead relief, glass lenses and plexiglass, 54 x 44.5 inches The material aspects of language, weather of the eventspace, fluid dynamics and haptic phenomenology of the interrelations of thought map this world. The word tele on the right hand center, opposite a simulated mudflow occupies the middle territory. Through the gaps of shredded textual streams, a kind of sensorium is revealed in the subterranean region below. |
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The Round-up (1992) Photocollage with lead relief and applied letters, 54.5 x 45.5 inches The Round-up charts multiple signature effects and rounds them up to the nearest material factor. The temporarily displaced harvesters are generating a grainy forgery. |
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Threshers Sink Array (1992) Photocollage with painted lead relief 44.5 x 77 inches 3 days clocked in dust ahead of us thick around underwood Time lapse of grain threshers above a fragmented chessboard through which the hoof prints of cattle and bird tracks are recorded at the edge of the sinkhole below. The boxer poet sends and receives at the threshold as the ghostly and doubled negative/positive relief figure of the Marey runner-chronographer/archaeologist figure moves in from the right. |
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Waterfall |
