The computer has evolved from the traditional tool serving the artist and has found a new identity as a creative partner that “leads” the artist.
The intent of my camera is to gather digital input as a starting point for inventing new metaphorical subjects birthed through an iterative computer evolutionary breeding process, not unlike the work of Darwin and Mendel. Photographic input is skewed to optimize the software resident on a half dozen computers running 24/7 that breed suites of drawings. Because they inform each other, I typically exhibit the drawings in clusters. Within this process of iterative creation, the occasional “wild card hybrid” offers an unimagined departure point for building new vocabularies that “imagineer” new aesthetic and design relationships. Like a stream of water finding its own path after a rainstorm, the hybrids situational journey collides and offers a conversation with the machines predictability.
Each example is an extract from an iterative series that includes between 12 and 48 images. When there is space in museums, these are exhibited together as a single suite butting against each other. Detailed surface information appears when the image is scaled to the original size.