Nest Series -2024

image of girl in a data pod

Former collaborator Justine Light phoned me up and proposed working on a series of new short videos featuring her work at the intersection of costumes and set design with my work at the intersection of sculpture and video. Upon arrival she had developed her ideas into little stories and I…

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Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar

Honors students made their own instruments and rocked out! This is a video created by a group of non-artist non-musicians that formed three bands and wrote original compositions on their own personally designed  electronic instruments. This class brought me back into a collaboration with Dominic Johnson a classically trained musician…

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Guitar – DESK

I bought a truck. This allows me to collect furniture. I live in a neighborhood built in the 1950’s They trow away really nice furniture. Voila – A guitar is born. note – This project is still under construction the screen in front of the speaker is still being hotly…

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BALL – Guitar

BALL

This instrument was created through the processes of experimentation and failure. I was attempting to create a sample wooden sphere for my 3D students to study. A miscalculation left me with a half constructed 3/4 sphere. Decorative holes designed into the perimeter happened to perfectly fit a section of broomstick…

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SWIRL – Guitar

I sketched this guitar in the car while my wife was driving us back to Chicago from Iowa. I wanted to essentially Decorate and electrify a tin can guitar that I had built on a 2×2 plank in my garage. Most of the laser work that I did was purely…

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