proof of concept

in a way color study and miami blue already showed this. but i wanted to show ryan what i have in mind for thursday.

this is a picture:






































this is that picture projected onto the chair cushion you see in the picture:










































but what i'm making won't quite be as "pure" as this - but i love the traffic cones - so maybe it's "purer" in that it's more definable as "art" by being further removed from the reality of the thing - anyway it's a tiny space and it might be cold out but you're welcome to swing by thursday night. or email me, i might be able to meet up some other time.

happy new year

miami blue

video to come but here are a few pictures.

went down to pulse, the rubell family collection, scope, fountain, nada, and artbasel. took my camera and laptop and projector and thought i might want to make something. have been reading about david hockney (one of my heroes) and just getting to the swimming pools, thought maybe some sort of homage to him. then, started playing with the spot color feature on my camrea, had never used that before. took a lot of pictures with blue in them, everything else shows up as black and white. projected those into a swimming pool. the water shimmers over (through?) the picture. you can't see the motion here, but i was glad to see it.

one of the photos i took:





































projected into the pool:





































photoshopped (to adjust for distortion, made it a little brighter, added a little more contrast):

a tag of two cities / nola rising

wednesday, 19 november 2008






























thursday, 20 november 2008






























friday, 21 november 2008

found

last weekend went to maryland, with people, wanted to share something, make something, do something. had taken a big piece of canvas and had a vision of "making" - but when i got there, realized i wanted to use basically what-was-already-there, more than anything-i-might-have-brought-or-could make. so, an installation piece.

1) noticed this painting. there were many paintings of the sea and so on, some quite beautiful, all reproductions, in frames. this one had some space in the ocean for something else to be in there.




























2) noticed ruthie and julia talking on a [pier] [dock]. filmed them. composed the shot so that they would fit into the painting (had to crop it later - wanted the land to fit on the horizon, etc.)



























3) projected the video of them talking (and the water was quite rough, it was a very windy day, a beautiful day with rapidly-moving clouds) onto the painting.





























may post video soon.

a lot of other things are going on...

nola rising

next week, making something collaborative, here is the space, also you can see the organizers. went there tuesday afternoon, what we do is determined to a large extent by where we're making the thing. i had the idea of projecting something onto that narrow strip of wall above the mirror, then projecting a duplicate projection onto the mirror, which will hopefully make the floor look like a river reflecting what's above the horizon, in a way.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35175812195

in the world

monday night

public painting

hadn't initially payed much attention to the public art aspect of the collaboration with james merrell, but yesterday as we took the next step it came up. we might even expand the project at some point.

right now, though, his oil painting has been successfully affixed to our borrowed trashcan and will soon be released back into the wild.

work in progress

getting closer to how i envision this piece (homage to dekooning = layers, projection onto acrylic on canvas).

koinonia payload

collaboration between chattahoochee payload, erik sanner, and audience members 4 october 2008.

http://www.chattahoocheepayload.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=120444928
http://www.eriksanner.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinonia
in the context of outer goodness, translated into english, the meaning of koinonia holds the idea of joint participation in something with someone, such as in a community, or team or an alliance or joint venture. those who have studied the word find there is always an implication of action included in its meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload
goods or produce being delivered or transported; the net carrying capacity of an aircraft or spacecraft.