Category: ART

  • is is

    is is

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    Is Is is a codex of collage that intends to semiotically explains our current human paradigm through employing symbols of various traditions to challenge the dominant capitalist narrative of freedom through object oriented mechanized progress, instead reinforcing that we are all emancipators of ourselves. Is Is questions the nature of reality and consciousness, reminding us…

  • gate/gate

    gate/gate

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    on december 9, 2009 this spiral appeared over the western coast of norway. it was captured on multiple different video feeds and cameras. at first it was explained as a failed russian missile launch, which was virulently denied by the russian military. a week later they acquiesced and took responsibility. however, i don’t believe that…

  • rite of passage

    rite of passage

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    Rite of Passage is a series of paintings based on vhs footage from the mini documentary ‘Love on $14’ about the Grateful Dead’s early 90s followers.

  • white hole

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    white hole explores the relationship between image and creation. the title white hole references the concept of the opposite of a black hole, a cosmic entity that hypothetically cannot be entered from the outside and continuously emits matter and light.

  • it is not far

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  • cosmos

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    cosmos, or an orderly and harmonious system, is the title of the third painting in it is not far. it attempts to depict the paradox of attempting to depict something that can’t and doesn’t yet exist. therefore i painted color field and interwoven energetic filaments. cosmos was painted over one and a half years in…

  • logos

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    the second painting in the triptych it is not far, logos, is a photo of a paused second generation ipod. unknown artist, unknown album were byproducts of cd-r’s and the beginning of free and wide distribution and memes. they also represent me as the painter of the painting. the duration of the song is 11:11…

  • noos

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    the series it is not far depicts temporal time in its different incarnations. historic symbolic time is depicted in the first painting in the series, noos. during a visit to the metropolitan museum of art in new york in the fall of 2005 i felt my first fundamental energetic connection to the fetish and devotional…

  • m3tr0p0lis occupy

    m3tr0p0lis occupy

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    m3tr0p0lis occupy began with the album bot hits, which Leslie Kneisel asked me to do to accompany a screening of Fritz Lang’s metropolis at an exhibition of her newer and amazing lithographs in atlanta. spacey, sci-fi and house-y were all adjectives she asked for, as she intended to bring out the aesthetic futurism of metropolis.…

  • spectral alphabet

    spectral alphabet

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    spectral alphabet was installed at golden parachutes in berlin between july 4 and august 8, 2009. it represents roughly 5 years of my work, and touches on themes of time, space, spirit and the artist.

  • logos

    logos

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    in 2005 i left new york city and over the course of a month made my way to the san francisco bay area where i subsequently resettled. i carried with me a gifted super 8 camera and shot stop motion film of my trip. during this transition i made a point of not taking any…