Detail from 'Pink Ion Fall'. 2008
About the Perspex Works:
These Perspex (Plexiglas) works are made as 'sandwiches' of clear and coloured layers with cut-outs and embedded items. The layers are bolted together using nickel 'hex' bolts flush with the surface. These form part of the hanging arrangement that spaces the piece about 4 cms from the wall. The work is hung from a separate perspex bar that is mounted on the wall using white nylon spacers and mirror disc head screws.
Under specific lighting (i.e.halogen) light transmits through the piece and falls in colours and patterns of shadow on the wall. The edges of the works are sanded to a diffuse finish to generalise the internal reflections. From sunlight to multi-spots, all these properties change as the lighting source is altered. They can be hung as individual self-consistent works or as 'constellations' that occupy a pattern across the wall.
detail : Electric Dot Unit 2008
The ideas for these pieces centre around astronomy and the optical presence of the night sky. Informing and inspiring these works are alternative, lost and forgotten scientific theories. Some of the early works illustrated Walter Ritz' Light Ballistic Theory (1912)and then moved into the topographies of Electric Universe. These are characterised by outlines of negative curvature as if the works are carved by counter-rotating vortices. When placed together these encompass voids of equal volume.
In the later works these issues resolved themselves into 2 active layers, one containing the photonic elements and the other expansion rings of metallic and coloured spirit dye. These exemplify the repulsion of the electro-magnetic field and the equivalence of gravity as a real expansion. In this respect they reflect on the Un-unified Field theories of Miles Mathis.
Also in the later works I was experimenting with solder splashes on inclined surfaces in order to generate dynamics what would imply causality. These are essentially 'maps' that guide and navigate through the Universe but informed by a particular theoretical perspective. As such they are maps of synaptic illumination as much as of starlight.
| Plasma Maps (large)
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| Pink Ion Fall | Blue Ion Sheet | Blue Ion Wave | Black Ion Pinch | |
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| Plasma Maps (small)
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| Electric Dot Unit 01 | Red Cathode Unit 01 | Silver Cathode Unit 01 | Electric Pleides 01 | |
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| Electric Arc Unit 01 | Gold Cathode Unit 01 | Orbit Study 01 | 4 Yellow Skies | |
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| Theory Bars
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| Inconstant Heavens | Acoustic Painted | |||
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| Arrays
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| Archive
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| Light Ballistic Ensemble | Machian Blue Circle | Machian Blue Oval | ||
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