These objects are an exploration of the limits to human perception.
Mathematical patterns, repetition on scales,
asymmetry and symmetry, concepts of self-similarity, resonance,
and quantized information are the tools employed
to caress the visual cortext at its physical limits.
Even an unimpaired mind can be fooled by light and dark, and color relationships. The brain can be overwhelmed by patterns and change-over-time.
A viewer's perspective can be constantly changed by adjusting their relationship with light, pattern, and surface.
In many of these works, digital imagery and video are used as source for LED control.
Phenomena and animals in nature that emit light or change color capture our imaginations and demand our attention.
Since the dawn of human-kind and the advent of fire (aka technology) we have been fascinated by moving light,
color, and shadow. These scuptural objects play on the very evolutionary traits that have led to our success as a species.
Collapsed Hyperbola -- Tiger in the Grass
2014
Dimensions: 48" X 48" X 3"
Medium: Aluminum Composite Material (Alupanel),
PVC, Custom Electronics, Abstracted Digital Imagery
Description: This artwork is comprised of 9 layers: 4 LED layers that create a
shaded space for light, and 5 layers of painted surfaces (4 white layers 1 black face). Each layer contains a
number of programmable color LEDs. The LEDs are animated by color information from a digital photograph.
Offset CIrcles -- Field of Tulips
2014
Dimensions: 24" X 24" X 3"
Medium: Aluminum Composite Material (Alupanel),
PVC, Custom Electronics, Abstracted Digital Imagery
Description: This artwork is comprised of 9 layers: 4 LED layers that create a
shaded space for light, and 5 layers of painted surfaces (4 white layers 1 black face). Each layer contains a
number of programmable color LEDs. The LEDs are animated by color information from a digital photograph.
Quadrilater Hyperbolae -- Tropical Fish Tank
2014
Dimensions: 16" X 16" X 3"
Medium: Aluminum Composite Material (Alupanel),
PVC, Custom Electronics, Abstracted Digital Imagery
Description: This artwork is comprised of 9 layers: 4 LED layers that create a
shaded space for light, and 5 layers of painted surfaces (4 white layers 1 black face). Each layer contains a
number of programmable color LEDs. The LEDs are animated by color information from a digital photograph.
Offset Squares -- Cherry Blossoms Against Blue Sky
2014
Dimensions: 16" X 16" X 3"
Medium: Aluminum Composite Material (Alupanel),
PVC, Custom Electronics, Abstracted Digital Imagery
Description: This artwork is comprised of 9 layers: 4 LED layers that create a
shaded space for light, and 5 layers of painted surfaces (4 white layers 1 black face). Each layer contains a
number of programmable color LEDs. The LEDs are animated by color information from a digital photograph.
Irregular Octagon -- Two Zebras Eating Grass
2014
Dimensions: 48" X 48" X 3"
Medium: Aluminum Composite Material (Alupanel),
PVC, Custom Electronics, Abstracted Digital Imagery
Description: This artwork is comprised of 9 layers: 4 LED layers that create a
shaded space for light, and 5 layers of painted surfaces (4 white layers 1 black face). Each layer contains a
number of programmable color LEDs. The LEDs are animated by color information from a digital photograph.
Working on multiple planes with diffusers and aperture, this work stimulates the visual cortex with heliotropic
patterns and subtle movement. Ever-changing patterns of color wash the wall to create texture where there is none.
The object creates constant changing of perspective for the viewer without the viewer ever changing position.
This spider is a representational work that overlaps ideas of nature and technology. The natural form of the spider is cut and formed
using computer aided manufaturing technology, and the spider is imbued with hundreds of micro computers and LEDs.
This object retains the sinister beauty of the spider. It casts it's own shadow in the form of an ever changing
web of color whose movements are controlled by abstracted imagery.
62" across X 8"
Quantum Flower (Hallucination Engine)
Birch Ply, 144 Animated LEDs, Custom Electronics, Abstracted Digital Imagery.
This work is comprised solely of straight lines and circles and explores asymetry within symetry. Self similar on 3 scales, the apertures echo and modulate through space as do the animations of light and color.
Driven by abstracted imagery of flowers spread across LED's with distinct spacing the work explores the quantization of natural information.
22" Square X 5"
8 Way Window of Perception -- Round
Acrylic Sheet, Birch Ply, 96 Animated LEDs, and imagery of fire and water.
Each discrete pane has three layers, each layer of each pane contains four, RGB leds. Each LED is addressed via a microcontroller.
The box is essentially a one dimensional display, folded into three dimensions. In this case an image of Fire and an image of Water have been formatted for this
box such that each line of the image is a 'frame' of the animation.
Only the nature of fire or water remains in the playback. Viewers may not recognize the imagery of Fire,
but the palette and fundamental behavior of fire are obvious.
This Window of Perception is a continuation of Dorety's ongoing investigations
beyond human perception and into the sub-liminal; beyond the threshold between representation
and abstraction, analog and digital information.
25" X 13" X 5"
8 Way Window of Perception -- Square
Acrylic Sheet, Birch Ply, 96 Animated LEDs, and imagery of fire and water.
Each discrete pane has three layers, each layer of each pane contains four, RGB leds. Each LED is addressed via a microcontroller.
The box is essentially a one dimensional display, folded into three dimensions. In this case an image of Fire and an image of Water have been formatted for this
box such that each line of the image is a 'frame' of the animation.
Only the nature of fire or water remains in the playback. Viewers may not recognize the imagery of Fire,
but the palette and fundamental behavior of fire are obvious.
This Window of Perception is a continuation of Dorety's ongoing investigations
beyond human perception and into the sub-liminal; beyond the threshold between representation
and abstraction, analog and digital information.
25" X 13" X 5"
Window of Perception, Round
Birch Ply, 48 Animated LEDs, and imagery of fire and water.
The round pane has three layers, each layer contains sixteen RGB leds. Each LED is addressed via a microcontroller.
The box is essentially a one dimensional display, folded into three dimensions.
In this case images of Fire and Water have been formatted for this box such that each
line of the image is a 'frame' of the animation.
Only the nature of fire and water
remain in the playback. Viewers may not recognize the imagery of Fire and water,
but their palettes and fundamental behaviors are obvious. This Window of Perception is a
continuation of Dorety's ongoing investigations beyond human perception and into the sub-liminal;
beyond the threshold between representation and abstraction, of analog and digital information.
Now investigating the relationship of scale to the viewer's perception.
8" X 8" X 5"
Window of Perception, Square
Birch Ply, 48 Animated LEDs, and imagery of fire and water.
The square pane has three layers, each layer contains sixteen RGB leds. Each LED is addressed via a microcontroller.
The box is essentially a one dimensional display, folded into three dimensions.
In this case images of Fire and Water have been formatted for this box such that each
line of the image is a 'frame' of the animation.
Only the nature of fire and water
remain in the playback. Viewers may not recognize the imagery of Fire and water,
but their palettes and fundamental behaviors are obvious. This Window of Perception is a
continuation of Dorety's ongoing investigations beyond human perception and into the sub-liminal;
beyond the threshold between representation and abstraction, of analog and digital information.
Now investigating the relationship of scale to the viewer's perception.
