Soft geography (after Christo and Jeanne Claude)
Geotextiles are used at glacial tourist attractions and ski resorts. Essentially enormous, reflective blankets, they are put over ice in the summer. In a gesture at once naive, tender, and seemingly futile, their purpose is to slow accelerating glacial melt. Unfathomable at any larger scale than a single ski hill, geotextiles are literally geologic bandages.
These images are speculative installations inspired by the the futility and softness of geotextiles, augmented to the awesome (i.e. awe-inspiring) scale of landworks, and are the basis for larger, on-going projects.
2022 - ongoing
Speculative photographs created with photographs, Photoshop, and MidJourney
Speculative photographs created with photographs, Photoshop, and MidJourney
Absconding from urgency
This is a sculpture created from clay, metal, and prints repurposed from other works. To create the prints, I searched the creative commons for photographs of the Athabasca glacier spanning from 1940 to present day. I stitched them together using Photoshop’s image stitch function, which predicts each photo’s most likely neighbour. This created a “speculative” landscape of the glacier, which spans not only distance, but also time. I then printed this image on photolithography plates, and deconstructed the landscape once again by cutting it up and reinstating it into 3D space in this sculpture.
Twenty Inklings, A Broken Double Helix, Absconding from Urgency, 2023
58 x 32 x 29 inches
steel rod, rivets, repurposed UV prints on steel, repurposed UV prints on reclaimed emerald lithography plates, clay, copper
58 x 32 x 29 inches
steel rod, rivets, repurposed UV prints on steel, repurposed UV prints on reclaimed emerald lithography plates, clay, copper
Small trees sway
2023
seires of 3 UV prints on reclaimed lithography plates
30 x 14.5 inches
seires of 3 UV prints on reclaimed lithography plates
30 x 14.5 inches
Created with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Sun sun dog dog
2023
UV print on reclaimed lithography plate
13 x 24 inches
UV print on reclaimed lithography plate
13 x 24 inches
Created with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
As above, so below
2023
rust, Arches paper, ashes, Gator Board, bamboo, polyester cord
part of a group show The mystery of things that increase as they perish with Lauren Chipeur, Eli Horn, and Zoe Koke at shedshows in Austin, Texas.
rust, Arches paper, ashes, Gator Board, bamboo, polyester cord
part of a group show The mystery of things that increase as they perish with Lauren Chipeur, Eli Horn, and Zoe Koke at shedshows in Austin, Texas.
Boundary Objects
2022
From Painted Hooves, the 2022 MFA thesis show at The University of Texas at Austin
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein
From Painted Hooves, the 2022 MFA thesis show at The University of Texas at Austin
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein
Sitting quietly, doing nothing
2022
24 handmade, 6” x 6”, press-molded, experimentally-fired ceramic tiles; rust print on silk organza
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein
24 handmade, 6” x 6”, press-molded, experimentally-fired ceramic tiles; rust print on silk organza
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein
2022
known knowns
This work was part of the Connective Tissues: printed and published exhibition at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas.
The takeaway print is based on a declassified document called Simple Sabotage, published by the OSS during the second world war.
2022
laser jet prints on mylar, pine, steel, inkjet print on newsprint.
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein.
The takeaway print is based on a declassified document called Simple Sabotage, published by the OSS during the second world war.
2022
laser jet prints on mylar, pine, steel, inkjet print on newsprint.
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein.
Mortal Time
2020
slkscreen print on silk organza, rust dye print on silk organza, wood, paper sculpture
slkscreen print on silk organza, rust dye print on silk organza, wood, paper sculpture
24–09–2024
Reality Tunnel
2020
slkscreen prints on dura-lar, lithography, laser jet prints, risographs, willow glass, wood, acrylic paint, steel, tape.
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein.
slkscreen prints on dura-lar, lithography, laser jet prints, risographs, willow glass, wood, acrylic paint, steel, tape.
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein.
24–09–2024
Strong Hold
2021
installation with laser jet prints on vellum, silkscrreen on vellum, risograph prints on cardstock, bisqued ceramics, glazed ceramics, blackened steel, wax, found photo frame, fake rock with suminagashi.
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein.
installation with laser jet prints on vellum, silkscrreen on vellum, risograph prints on cardstock, bisqued ceramics, glazed ceramics, blackened steel, wax, found photo frame, fake rock with suminagashi.
Photos by Alex Boeschenstein.
Morose Code
2017
Excerpt from a 12 channel, hour-long sound art project entitled Morose Code.
Installed at the Arts Commons +15 soundscape hallway, this work is a journey through time using collaged radio excerpts. This project was inspired by the following thought experiment: since radio waves travel at the speed of light, for every lightyear you distance yourself from the earth on a theoretical journey you would aurally go back in time. You would, of course, need a radio on your spaceship.
Morose Code is a condensed version of this journey: walking east to west you go backwards in time, from the 2010s to the 1930s, or away from the earth. Walking west to east brings you forward in time, toward the earth.
Excerpt from a 12 channel, hour-long sound art project entitled Morose Code.
Installed at the Arts Commons +15 soundscape hallway, this work is a journey through time using collaged radio excerpts. This project was inspired by the following thought experiment: since radio waves travel at the speed of light, for every lightyear you distance yourself from the earth on a theoretical journey you would aurally go back in time. You would, of course, need a radio on your spaceship.
Morose Code is a condensed version of this journey: walking east to west you go backwards in time, from the 2010s to the 1930s, or away from the earth. Walking west to east brings you forward in time, toward the earth.
24–09–2024
forging one small
2019
inket prints on vellum, fishing swivels, steel
inket prints on vellum, fishing swivels, steel
Spyglass
2020
Three-channel audio- and movement-reponsive video projection. Audio in documentation written, compoed, produced and recorded by Kerry Maguire.
Three-channel audio- and movement-reponsive video projection. Audio in documentation written, compoed, produced and recorded by Kerry Maguire.
Prints, 2019 - current
A variety of works from my printmaking practice.
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