I draw line patterns
often they recombine with each other, sometimes they do not
sometimes they become lampshades, sometimes they become light projections
sometimes they say words or look like something, often they don't
rarely do they have colour, but when they do they don't need much
recently i have been drawing pictures about the GME situation
The lamps recombine textually and graphically:
i knew that eventually you would read this
i knew that you would read this eventually
eventually i knew that you would read this
you would read this eventually i knew that, etc.
These lamps can recombine graphically within the columnar order
Some one-off lamps
A couple "representational" examples
Examples of not-so-flat drawings
Sometimes art gets shown in a gallery
Above is a set of alphabet panels used as source for a colouring book and as smoke detector covers
Though the colouring book was produced, no one wanted to use them to cover their unsightly smoke detectors
The letter Z was burned in a performance art/ritual/extortion event several years later to destroy the pattern
Prior to the set being displayed as smoke detector covers, they were displayed flat to show the connectivity, as seen below
The Alphabetter! formed a loop, or an A-M / N-Z grid in sequence, while The Alphanumerocombinator! is fully recombinant between letters and numerals
allowing for larger patterns to connect over words and sentences.
Above is a collaboration with Joel Snowden during the A440hz project
I have been in a couple art shows, but don't often try to put together a collection to show all at once.
Generally, as creative efforts are made they are distributed to their intended recipients, so they don't take up space in the laboratory.
I collaborated on shows with The Misanthropy Gallery, Blim, The Art Bank (Vancouver), New Forms Festival, W2, The Memelab,
SAT (Montréal), The Cumberland Community Forest Home and Garden Show, and the Mojo Dojo.
Sometimes I make wallpaper to put up in public
Sometimes pics are one-off ideas
Often they recombine with each other to form larger patterns
In this pic the four major municipalities of the comox valley can be shuffled around in any order and lines will cross panels to align with each other
Below is an example of a fully recombinant set, here the 2 panels can be placed on either sde of each other or in any orientation and they will align.
Landscape
Portrait
