This series of 3 light boxes attempt to address the nature of the creation and lifespan of artwork as it pertains to time viewed in a Gaussian field.
Send Goya is a time based installation in which fruit and meat are gathered in a screen printed t-shirt. As they rot, 2000 housefly pupa hatch and live inside the work. The life of one artist can be applied to Gaussian field abstraction as much as wave lengths of light..
Still life for a nuclear winter explores a still life in regards to the application of a Gaussian random field. The initial conditions of physical cosmology generated by quantum mechanical fluctuations during cosmic inflation are thought to be a Gaussian random field with a nearly scale invariant spectrum. Your eyes can’t see the still life, just the the distance of light traveling from objects through a softened screen; like trying to make out a distant shore in the river fog at dawn.
Carl’s Bokeh Saw. In the same way a halftone print can be rendered smooth by a Gaussian blur, a bokeh field is produced by an unfocused lens. This work deals with the softening of subject matter and capturing the point at which something that is very definable fades into the emanating background light; like Goya’s mind at the end of his life or the moment a strawberry becomes something rotten and unrecognizable.
