the compressionist concept

	four trees four lambda prints (three shown) 225 x 200 cm (150 x 200)

In my ongoing Compressionist studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, tracing varying 3-dimensional paths. After being Compressed into digital images the size of a small sheet of paper, the files are stretched, cropped and colored by hand.

These performative prints are produced with a custom-made scanner appendage and battery pack: I might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around my neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies.

Compressionism is an artful performance that simultaneously occurs in both the actual and virtual space, and then uses a computer for further call and response. Each performed action produces a subsequent digital image that I then re-work and mediate through my own eye’s interpretation.

These finished pieces are editioned in a suitable archival format, using photographic and inkjet processes.

Continuing with the iterative performance of passing through various media in such a way, I also produce hand-made details from my Compressionist images with other processes, utilizing traditional techniques such as etching, engraving, monotype, polyester plate lithography, aquatint and more.