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Infinity Diagram – Water Tower, Cherry Hill, NJ (Detail) – 2002
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In the series Infinity Diagrams I present images of the world that have been processed using digital media. I start with a photograph taken of a specific structure – a water tower, a building, and so forth – that has iconic significance. I then repeat this image over and over arriving at a final image that is a digital construction but one that remains 100 percent photographic.
I use the language of cutting and pasting that has its origins in cubist collage and has been taken over and exploited by digital media. This is an important aspect of the work because of the way in which digital media allows the world to be “imaged”.
This process of imaging is a specific language, which has allowed me to explore with great speed complex patterned images that pull from my interest in Islamic ornamentation, Buddhist mandalas, and Gothic stained glass among other sources. Ultimately, my goal in using this process is to create images that establish a position somewhere between the structured abstractions of the American painter Ad Reinhardt and the analytic photographs of the Germans Bernd and Hilda Becher.
EDITION
This series is editioned in two sizes. All works are pigment prints on archival matte paper, signed, numbered and printed by the artist.
Large:
Image size 34” x 34” on 46” x 44” paper.
5 prints and 1 artist’s proof.
Small:
Image size 15” x 15” on 19” x 17” paper.
10 prints and 2 artist's proofs.
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