2021
auto_poetics
10ft. h x 25ft. w x 12ft. d (variable)
Influenced by 3rd generation Cognitive Science, I am interested in how deeply we are enmeshed with embodied experience, participatory and perspectival, pre-conceptual, knowledge. My use of physical materials is grounded in Earth, Body, and sensibility, initiating contact, and cohering with the World. My use of machines demonstrates the knowable, provable, purely logical, abstract, mathematical, conceptual propositional and procedural knowledge. My work explores the dynamic process within our cognitive machinery to create a sense of unbroken connectedness, attunement, a resonate balance between what is knowable and what is discoverable.
I use various software and 3d printers to model and print geometric form. My creative effort begins as pure abstraction, virtually understood. Clay, water, carbon fiber, nylon, recycled water bottles, heat, gravity, and time are all in play when I send the file to print. This is my moment of attunement as I use physical material to record machine language in real time, a transitory object slowly becoming. I continually modify the file in software, print and interact with the recorded object. My serial process of making may last hours or days until I have generated multiple objects capable of sending or receiving energy and meaning. Then I delete the file. This is critical for me to be present, prioritizing participation in recorded machine language over repeating a knowable object.
This approach is extended into installation space for viewer interaction. A meta-theme of growth and change is played out in an arena of inexhaustible possibilities. I focus on relevance realization for binding together ways of knowing and collaborating with machines. My visual language is part ornament, part synthetic replication. I encourage mechanical and aesthetic synthesis as objects coil and uncoil. Culture debris travels along vertical and spiral paths pushing against and succumbing to gravity. I offer a physical experience that stores and releases energy, sends and receives meaning. New perspectives are discovered within an awareness of equilibrium and sustainability. Human/Machine/Body/World are emergent and deeply imbedded in an immersive salience landscape.