These works were created in my live/work space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 2024 and utilize fibers from cloth, rope, and dollar-store flowers with epoxy, dry, and iridescent pigments on armatures, panels, or paper. I engineered my bathroom into a temperature-controlled and sealed spray booth for resin construction and casting
Velatura di Spazio and the Tree of Life
This body of work exists as a set of twins, one of which is the painted velaturas, the thin veils of color developed during the Renaissance that became the utmost technology of storytelling of the day which led to questioning "gods" and the rise of humanism through the (pre) hyper-realistic representation of the human figure and clothing-- which I employ on the nebulae and galaxies as the outer anatomy of consciousness with dry pigments and acrylic gel mediums.
Alongside the above-mentioned reconfiguration of a traditional method in a contemporary context is a far more nerdy side and is a conjecture designed from a research-based practice questioning the dimensionality of singularities. Usually, people like one or the other, but occasionally someone connects with both.
The other half Imagines the events of black holes as stretched timelines seen from outside spacetime. They appear connected to the Alpha point (Big Bang) and are similar to a seed becoming the iconic tree of life symbol. It is also important to note that the galaxies most likely all have black holes at their centers so the matter and energy of the universe would also exist on thin veils of spacetime like leaves or flowers blooming from the tree of life. This brings these two ways of seeing full circle. Both inside and outside of the physical world portrayed in art.
