ARTIST RESUME (download)

At the age of six I read about systems of electricity and Nikola Tesla. At this time I was also curious about the demise of the RMS Titanic and the catastrophic geological processes of diamond formation. These interests evolved alongside a love of science fiction. The boundary between the scientific and the fantastic blurred in my young mind as I crouched in the corner of the family room and repeatedly placed and removed bobby pins from an outlet. My intention was to collect the sound generated by currents on my brother’s Panasonic cassette recorder. I had a sense that the rubber tip would function as an insulator and fortunately steel has low relative conductivity. I was taken with the process of creation and its abrupt subsequent absence. Sound and then silence. I had then and still possess an insatiable desire to create, capture and manage chaos.

SOURCES
Hilla and Bernd Becher
Hans Bellmer
Marcel Duchamp
Harold Edgerton
Max Ernst
Andreas Gursky
Howard Hughes
Bruce Lee
Eadweard Muybridge
Takashi Murakami
Katsushige Nakahashi
Yoshitomo Nara
Man Ray
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Do Ho Suh
Nikola Tesla


BOOKS

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division, by Deborah Curtis
The Nature of Visual Illusion, by Mark B. Fineman
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living, by Bruce Lee
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations, by Edward R. Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte