Methods and Madness:
I enjoy repurposing or upcycling trash. One of my very earliest memories is of visiting a dump with my grandfather. He saw treasures where others saw only trash. We excavated, making discoveries that I relished. He would tell me about the car a particular hub cap once belonged to. Curious thick glassed cylinders I found were used to insulate electric poles from the heavy cables.
I am inspired in a similar way by a contemporary artist called Vik Muniz. He scoured the mountain-sized dumps around Sao Palo for materials he later turned into massive portraits and copies of masterworks. For me, I like to use cast-off toys to make Art.
Scientific themes permeate almost all of my work; but my message is more about the Future than about Astronomy. Context, in this case, is important. The formal elements of any work can serve to distract from content. If that distraction can be made intentionally one can recognize, acknowledge and move onto the content.
Iconic images are like a shared vocabulary. The language of pictures is harder to quantify, but is not bound by spoken languages. A picture of Che says something to each of us in a different way. In many ways, these images surpass even symbology. Or, human beings and machines are turned into symbols. If some people can become symbols then what are every one else? Are we all symbolic?
I am inspired in a similar way by a contemporary artist called Vik Muniz. He scoured the mountain-sized dumps around Sao Palo for materials he later turned into massive portraits and copies of masterworks. For me, I like to use cast-off toys to make Art.
Scientific themes permeate almost all of my work; but my message is more about the Future than about Astronomy. Context, in this case, is important. The formal elements of any work can serve to distract from content. If that distraction can be made intentionally one can recognize, acknowledge and move onto the content.
Iconic images are like a shared vocabulary. The language of pictures is harder to quantify, but is not bound by spoken languages. A picture of Che says something to each of us in a different way. In many ways, these images surpass even symbology. Or, human beings and machines are turned into symbols. If some people can become symbols then what are every one else? Are we all symbolic?