STATEMENT OF WORK

I began this series of painting by drawing on my experience with computers. I was considering the transition from punch cards created with a language such as Fortran, to the use of an extremely accessible OS. The user no longer requires knowledge of the code operating in the background. As the technology continues to evolve, there has developed an unquestioning acceptance of what the speed of code offers in our daily activities. At first I was curious and then intrigued with the change, both in social behaviors and perceptual comprehension as humans adapted to personal computers and digital screens.

These paintings reference change in visual and mental perception by refactoring traditional methods of art production with computer software. Code mimics the human brain capacity to interpret light with a file comprised of a field of numbers, and source material for these paintings is derived from smartphones pics and scanned photographs. Some of the photos date from the middle of the 20th century. Images are brought to the painting surface by way of transfer, using the printer as an extension of the painter’s brush.

There is a push and pull struggle with the output of the printer, partially due to the unstable nature of the ink. Within the production of the painting, there is a possibility of an alteration over time, not unlike the changing state of affairs for culture at large.