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Coherence IMG_5662w As if by magic, patterns are created then slowly fade before your eyes. A simple dark blue laser dot or line moves across the canvas creating a pattern revealed only as a fleeting after image- slowly fading as soon as it is created. It is the persistence of photonic decay that allows us to see that laser projections are merely dots of light moving so fast our eyes can not see them as individual dots, but rather blur them into complete shapes. Slowing down the laser allows us to see what and how we see. Decay
Eidolon thumb.eidolon GROTESQUE: the distortion or warping of an image that is reflected in the water of a cave. ARABESQUE: an elaborative application of repeating geometric forms that often echo the forms of nature. Grotesque
Burle vashon1w IMG_3937w Gilbreths
Civita Residency aqua.sheet.w 22'w x 18'l x 6'h; florescent acrylic rods; ©2010 Luminous Reeds
Vibrating Indigo theatrical gel, rope, paint, wood, steel: ©2008 DRIP IV 2007 Tubing, Fiber Optics, Resin Drip IV
Drip 18" x 36" x 75"; Glass, Resin, Steel, Lighting; ©2008 SMASH Consolidated Works Gallery, Seattle The final gallery exhibition inspired by the imminant destruction of the gallery. The 2- 5' diameter "wrecking balls" hang on giant chains on either side of an exhibition wall. The wall and balls have microphones in them so as the audience smashes the balls through the wall (destroying the wall) the tone of the balls striking the walls or each other are then modified and deepened through amplified subwoofers and re--verb that echoes the resonant "smash" throughout the building. Smash
Hydrolux Victorian healing color and light theory matched specific colors to symptoms. Standing in the colored light was said to heal you of your condition. This practice led to the popularization of stain glass windows in residential homes. ThreeRings3 Three Rings
Honey Dippers Honey Dippers, detail. Special Thanks to: Jeremy Edwards, Steve Monsey, Kevin Spitzer, Seattle City Light and the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Generation 2003. A series of 22' long "streetlight sperm" danced through the decomissioned Georgetown (steam) Powerplant Museum. Generation
Illum. / Enlighten. ILLUMINATION / ENLIGHTENMENT Installation using various forms of "illumination" referencing earth mounds, religious candle lighting and quantum physics. lace.only Space Forms
Portals portholes.train This project was documentation of an installation done in the woods on Bainbridge Island. Its final format was 3 large-scale Cibachrome prints that are part of the City of Seattle's Portable Works Collection. This project was a meditation on the correlation between new emergent diseases/conditions and the unintentional results of manufacturing process that make their way into the environment and ultimately into our bodies. Envir.Corollary
IV Fire Columns IV Fire Columns 2'x2'x6'h Sculptures designed as "guardian" door pieces for the side of a medical building. Glass columns contain water and IV tubing. Below illuminated gas bubbles rise to the surface and erupt into flame. Part of the underground catacombs, the SNAKE CAVERN contains red neon snakes under a bed of black foundry sand. Flame Serpent
   
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