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The Kinetics of Connection

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The Kinetics of Connection

This piece was initially inspired by the upcoming election of Barack Obama in 2008, when it felt like the world (or just our country) was finally coming together in a consensus of action in our own interests. The pixel background was created over the skeletons of the spirals as a meditation on so many different creeds, races, cultures, and ages coming together in agreement, and practically singing Kumbaya. It was practically ecstatic. I put the piece away for awhile, until just recently, and finished it in the manner by which it started, as a connective composition based on the spiral and their geometric similarity to one another as well as their shape being a visual representation of the perceptions of our own actions: that we don't necessarily know the full ramifications of everything we do, as they leave our attention so quickly. Spirals are un-ending lines that come from infinity, are captured within our mind, and continue out as they arrived. They are compact tesselations like our own thought patterns. This representation is a field of interconnected spirals with shadows, flashes, and contour. They trace the interconnectedness of varying points of origin on the field. The surface at one time was almost completely wet, allowing the paint from one stroke to another to mingle, sink, and produce ribbon-like effects. The painting is highly three-dimensional and displays all my favorite properties of latex paint.

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