2023 - Ongoing
Aqua Alta: Automated Art Adaptation System
Using live data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s widely deployed array of buoys, I have created a body of work with self preservation capabilities in flash flood and other inundation events. Automated winches and pulleys use scraped data to raise and lower paintings in correlation to nearby water levels.
Debut installation of three Aqua Alta works at “Above Below Water” group exhibition at CultureHouse, Washington, DC, June 2023.
In normal weather scenarios, movements will subtly occur throughout the day following the natural tidal rhythms with a variance of about three feet on average.
For the purposes of demonstrating their climate emergency adaptive speeds, in this video the paintings are playing out a program which compresses four days worth of storm surge data from 2003 Hurricane Isabel, which flooded the very gallery they are now displayed in, into four minutes of motion.
Temporary video footage. COMING SOON: High resolution video documentation and artist interview.
Legacy (Abduction of Europa Asteas Krater)
Acrylic on canvas, dyed cotton rope, pulley, winch, stepper motor, circuit board, wood
46 x 34 inches, rope extension variable
2022-2023
$5000
Rein (Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth)
Acrylic on canvas, dyed cotton rope, pulley, winch, stepper motor, circuit board, wood
48 x 36 inches, rope extension variable
2022-2023
$5000
Inheritance (Venus of Willendorf)
Acrylic on canvas, dyed cotton rope, pulley, winch, stepper motor, circuit board, wood
48 x 36 inches, rope extension variable
2022-2023
$5000