Synonyms of thought-

form, structure, anatomy, articulation, framework, construction, design, contour, skeleton,

Antonymous ideas-

emptiness, chasm, void, dissolution, devastation, isolation

Digital interactions

I've been more interested recently in how computers have changed our access and mental organization and ownership of images as extant--(ie separate from the reality, taken by someone else, or present in a way that's divorced from the original scene) objects or ideas.

For instance, google street view has pictures of all of our homes. The are generally uniformly well lit, bright, prepackaged to add to the "fun" and image of what a google experience is. But they are our homes, so the same one picture representing them across the world is strange...

Google street view pictures are also part of our daily experiences as we try to go new places...show people what our houses look like so they can come over later... make sure we know which street to turn on. We are visually experiencing these places, before we actually go there in physical reality.

Scan programs too add a logical and yet arbitrary numbering system to files...when scanning individual drawings that are not part of a series, it makes no sense as I change the name of the file, yet the number keeps advancing.

Digital Deterioration

Age, change, and wear are all natural processes which together sum up to the entropic developments which we may observe in the world around us. Many of my art pieces involve a digital element of transformation and deterioration. This is because much of my background knowledge and material interests center around very physical materials such as clay (or wood, or distressed paper, etc) and extensive (involved) methods of changing the form of the materials. Exploring this practice within the digital realm gives me the chance to consider the more metaphorical applications of layers, accretion, time passing within a place, and ways to tell stories visually.

Digital Deterioration, Italian Heritage 2012