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Acrylic on Fiber Paste on Framed Wood Panel
36 in x 36 in
2012
Wedding anniversary gift from Leslie to Darrel. Two of the nicest people living in Texas today.
Thrilla Gorilla
Acrylic on Fiber Paste on Framed Wood Panel
11 in x 20 in
2011
This piece reproduces the 8-bit glory of the memorable artwork found in the games of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Using an image found on the web, I printed and gridded out clusters of pixels so that each box contains 16 pixels (4 x 4). There are a total of 840 boxes (21 x 40). With 16 pixels per box, that's 13,440 pixels! In order to stretch the image to the canvas, each box grows by the same rate of change toward the center on the horizontal axis, and a different rate of change on the vertical axis. The boxes at the corners are 1 cm x 1 cm, to give an overall symmetrical effect. Enjoy!
It's Hard to Talk
Acrylic on Framed Wood Panel
16 in x 16 in
2010
Wedding Gift for Darrel and Leslie
"It's hard to talk 1) with a room full of food 2) with a mouth full of fools"
I arranged painted triangles according to an arithmetic grid. I aimed to create a visually pleasing pattern. The quotation is a riddle.
Rainbow Coalition
Acrylic on Fiber Paste on Framed Wood Panel
18 in x 24 in
2010
Wedding gift for Jon and Emily
I like to think about gravity. What's more natural than a falling object? It's amazing nonetheless. Did you know that one of Einstein's great conceptual breakthroughs was his insight that constant accelerated motion of an observer in a enclosed capsule would go undetected? This piece is similar to some of the others: a pattern arranged so that the distance between points on the repeating units grows with a rate of change.
Rhythms Section
Acrylic on Framed Wood Panel
18 in x 24 in
This is the first of two paintings in a recent series. The work is radially symmetric. The side lengths change geometrically (by rate as opposed to incrementally). Rectangles of red, yellow, orange and brown are found along the axis of rectangles with the same side lengths (squares). The large squares measure 3 cm x 3 cm and the smalls squares measure 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm. Squares of intermediate size are found in between. Rectangles of blue, green, and purple are found in the regions where the rectangles are most irregular. The rectangles were meticulously (ridiculously?) painted by hand.
Wealthy Baby
Acrylic on Fiber Paste on Framed Wood Panel
8 in x 10 in
Sold
This work contains a circle and four ellipses. On the horizontal axis, the margins between the ellipses shrink geometrically. On the vertical axis, the margins between the ellipses grow geometrically. This creates ellipses that look increasingly egg-like. Each ellipse was formed using two thumb tacks, a length of wrapping paper ribbon taped together to form a loop, and a pencil. I found the proper locations for the tacks by relating the distance between the tacks and the width and length of ellipses in a set of geometric equations. The proper length for the ribbon was also found in this manner.
Hungry God
Acrylic on Fiber Paste on Framed Wood Panel
18 in x 24 in
Sold
Hungry God contains two ellipses and four circles. The radii of the circles grow geometrically. The image looked to me like the top perspective of a dinner table. The bowl and plate seem to be empty.
Communcable Steez
Acrylic, Graphite, and Chalk on Canvas
20 in x 24 in
2009
2009
A la Richie Jackson in Transworld's "And Now", this work aims for style and ease; it's mission is its transmission.
