Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Signal (Atomization), 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#936)


Full height not shown.


A4 proof 22.5 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Signal (Atomization), 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#936)


A4 proof 22.5 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Colored Rain (Piovuta), 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 31,29 x 41,3 cm. (id#937)


A4 proof 19.9 x 22.5 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Colored Rain (Piovuta), 2009 (detail)


31,29 x 41,3 cm. (id#937)


A4 proof 19.9 x 22.5 cm.

A digital manipulation of a scan.

Sailing to Byzantium, 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#932)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

A digital manipulation of a scan.

Sailing to Byzantium 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#932)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Cascade, 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#938)


A4 proof 22.5 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Cascade, 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#938)


A4 proof 22.5 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Code (Retinal Reprocesssing), 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm. (id#933)


A4 proof 28.4 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Code (Retinal Reprocesssing), 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,3 x 32,21 cm.

 (id#933)


A4 proof 28.4 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Sottofondo (Tawn), 2009


Archival digital pigment print (id#934)


A4 proof 28.4 x 19.9 cm.

Derived from purely photographic sources, an homage to the great tradition of the Abstract Sublime.

Sottofondo (Tawn), 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 28.85 cm. (id#934)


A4 proof 28.4 x 19.9 cm.

A digital elaboration of a thumnail of a scanned image.

Broadway Melt (Variant), 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 30.85 cm. (id#941v)


The title is a nod to Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie of 1943.



A digital elaboration of a thumnail of a scanned image.

Broadway Melt (Variant), 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 30.85 cm. (id#941v)


The title is a nod to Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie of 1943.

Abstract patterns, derived from original photographic images .

Interference, 2009


Archival digital pigment print, 41,03 x 29,28 cm. (id#925)


A4 proof 28.3 x 20.1 cm.

Abstract patterns, derived from original photographic images .

Interference, 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,03 x 29,28 cm. (id#925)


A4 proof 28.3 x 20.1 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference I (4x), 2010


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#942)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference I (4x), 2010 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#942)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference II (1x), 2010


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#943)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference II (1x), 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.0 cm. (id#943)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference III (50p), 2010


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#944)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference III (50p), 2010 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#944)


A4 proof 28.4 x 20.0 cm.

Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference IV (2x), 2010


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#945)



Abstract patterns, elaborated from digital scans.

Interference IV (2x), 2009 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,23 x 29,09 cm. (id#945)



A photoelaborated scan of a piece of plastic foam.

Liquid Metal, 2006


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.0 cm. (id#930v)


A4 proof 28.5 x 20.1 cm.

A photoelaborated scan of a piece of plastic foam.

Liquid Metal, 2006 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.0 cm. (id#930v)


A4 proof 28.5 x 20.1 cm.

A scan of a piece of patterned glass.

Cathedral, 2010


Archival digital pigment print, 41,24 x 32,12 cm. (id#1004)


A4 proof 28.5 x 20.1 cm.

A scan of a piece of patterned glass.

Cathedral, 2010 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41,24 x 32,12 cm. (id#1004)


A4 proof 28.5 x 20.1 cm.

Abstract patterns, derived from original photographic images .

Crystal, 2010


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.0 cm. (id#926)


A4 proof 28.5 x 20.1 cm.

Abstract patterns, derived from original photographic images .

Crystal, 2010 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.0 cm. (id#926)


A4 proof 28.5 x 20.1 cm.

A photoelaboration of a screen shot of the repeating texture on a web page.

Russian Bowling Alley Wallpaper, 2010

The title comes from the comment of a colleague of mine who described the corridors of his apartment building - the very fine Ansonia in Manhattan - as a "Russian bowling alley", due to the flocked wallpaper. Archival digital pigment print, 36.45 x 32.1 cm. (id#931)


A4 proof 22.6 x 19.9 cm.
A photoelaboration of a screen shot of the repeating texture on a web page.

Russian Bowling Alley Wallpaper, 2010 (detail)


The title comes from the comment of a colleague of mine who described the corridors of his apartment building - the very fine Ansonia in Manhattan - as a "Russian bowling alley", due to the flocked wallpaper. Archival digital pigment print, 36.45 x 32.1 cm. (id#931)
 

A4 proof 22.6 x 19.9 cm.

Images of pattern and texture of various materials, tending towards abstraction.

Waves (Onde), 1998


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.1 cm. (id#927)


A4 proof 2010 28.5 x 20.15 cm.

Images of pattern and texture of various materials, tending towards abstraction.

Waves (Onde), 1998 (detail)


Archival digital pigment print, 41.2 x 29.1 cm. (id#927)


A4 proof 2010 28.5 x 20.15 cm.

Some additional, highly patternistic works made by various manipulations of image files created with a camera or a scanner, or obtained via a screenshot of a visualization of a file on the computer screen.  A few are merely manipulated graphically, that is, assembled by simple means.  Others depend on superimposition of slightly different versions of a file.  One or two are symmetrical, some repeat a pattern, others are interference patterns, and one is homogeneous but non-repeating.  Some of them, especially the "Interference" series, are visual analogues to the musical compositions of Steve Reich and Philip Glass.  Due to their extreme uniformity, most of these images are followed by a detail, enlarged, to give a better idea of the nature of the images.

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