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Surface Tensions

5/19/2021

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There are several factors that differentiate my digital and analog works. The digital works rely more on concepts of space generated by gradients, light conditions, and perspective. The paintings, by contrast,  are generally flatter and materially intensive. Make a painting that has both the photographic thin modulation contrasting the intense materiality
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Idol Swap

5/12/2021

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​I made the image above sometime in the early 2000s. I like it to this day. The two inspirations were the work of James Casebere, and the film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Casebere creates meticulous small-scale models of environments and/or architecture. He subsequently photographs the models resulting in powerful imagery. I used craft-store pompoms and scrapbooking paper to suggest the temple, Indy, and his idol. The result was just so-so imagery.
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References:
Spielberg, Steven, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Lawrence Kasdan, Philip Kaufman, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, and Paul Freeman. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. , 2012.
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Automatic Swiping

5/6/2021

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Artists go about the virtuous task of bringing new things to the world for others to consider and enjoy. The most common method of doing this is to combine or juxtapose different things.  These combinations and juxtapositions may spark novel contrasts, new units of consciousness.  A humorous example of this is Daimaou Kosaka's PPAP (Pen Pineapple Apple Pen), a song  made popular by the attentions of Mr. Justin Bieber (or so I'm told). In the song and video (watch here, almost 390M views!) Kosaka combines and recombines words to generate new meaning. 

"I have a pen, I have an apple.
Uh! Apple Pen
I have a pen, I have pineapple.
Uh! Pineapple Pen
Apple pen...
Pineapple pen... uh!
Pen Pineapple Apple Pen!
Pen Pineapple Apple Pen!"

Taking a similar approach I created Automatic Swiping by combining two existing concepts, one historic (the surrealistic practice of automatic writing) and one contemporary (the swipe keyboard function on my cell phone). Practically, this means that I rapidly swiped the keyboard without the intension to form specific words. The resulting poem above intrigues me for a couple reasons.  First, the vocabulary that shows up from automatic swiping is linked to my everyday keyboard use i.e. the software recognizes letter combinations I have used, even if they are not words. For example, in the second line the term "rso"  appears. RSO is an acronym for "registered student organization". I have recently typed this term multiple times over the past month.  It makes me feel as though my phone, in some very real  and unexpected way, is a physical extension of my memories and subconscious mind. This is a happy discovery that relates much more closely with the spirit of automatism than I could have imagined. Another aspect that I appreciate, one that also aligns well with the classic notions of automatism, is that the chance or subconscious syntax creates novel juxtapositions, new contrasts. For example the line, "Kingship burbs without synthetic angora", stimulates me in a way that I can't help but to try to make it sensical. I know angora is a type of fur or wool. It doesn't seem like a stretch to say "synthetic angora". Why state that an unknown product doesn't exist? Finally, in reading Automatic Swiping I can't help be reminded of reading AI generated text that doesn't quite  make sense. I hope that you try your own automatic swiping.

Resources (links):
Automatism (Tate.org)
Swipe/Quickpath (youtube)



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List Poem

5/5/2021

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  1. not until you're next on my list
  2. ceasing to fear the end of the list
  3. fearing the end of the list
  4. How long have I allowed it to be on my list?
  5. meditate until it is no longer on your list
  6. add "relax" to list
  7. walking through a todo list
  8. finish list
  9. proofread list
  10. order list
  11. What's on your list?
  12. select the most important items on the list
  13. write down new things that occur to you quickly so you don't forget to put them on the list
  14. Reality TV is watching others complete their lists
  15. notice how once you decide to complete an item on your list another item on the list interrupts and jumps the cue
  16. do the item on the list that is in closest proximity
  17. do the most important items on the list
  18. don't add all the little things to the list as it would take too long to complete the list
  19. don't lose the list
  20. find ways to make it easier to complete the list
  21. you can't add an item to the list and simultaneously do an item, except in the rare situations where the item is adding itself to the list
  22. What would it all be like without a list?
  23. each item on the list has an associated and attached list, i.e. sublists
  24. go back to the list
  25. being in the nice position of having a short list
  26. some items on the list cannot be done without first achieving other items (some potentially not listed)
  27. it is presumed that each person's list contains both common and uncommon tasks
  28. sometimes you can add an item (an "automatic" that is normally done by you  - and not on the list) to your list so you can feel like you've accomplished something
  29. Will my list live on without me?
  30. certain situations may trigger memories of items on or portions of the list
  31. Am I just a list?
  32. items on the list may or may not carry over to the next day
  33. Can you finish the list on time?
  34. I had so many items on the list that I didn't notice
  35. "something out of place" may be an item "on" the list
  36. it was on my list but I didn't mention it.
  37. messes are a type of list
  38. automatic lists are rarely appreciated until left undone
  39. teach others to complete their own lists
  40. help others who are not able to complete their own lists without help
  41. I forgot something on the list
  42. I can't remember something that I should have put on the list
  43. some people can afford to pay others to complete items on their list
  44. start list
  45. If it's on your list I can take it off my list
  46. You read my list?
  47. making a list can make things less chaotic
  48. start doing list
  49. skipping an item on the list so I don't have to feel like a bad person
  50. add "fix self" to the list
  51. make a poem out of a list
  52. Where did I put my list?
  53. I need you to stop reading your list so that I can get to my list
  54. it's easier to compile a list without distractions
  55. ok, I have to get back to my list
  56. we can work on it together if it is on both of our lists
  57. don't start the list
  58. your list becomes my list
  59. every day is a new list
  60. remember to check all those lists

I wrote this sad poem about adult life on my cell phone during an evening pandemic walk in 2020.
Send me your ideas and I may add them to another list poem. 


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