about the works

Jackson scanner runs off back-up alarm batteries & OS drivers
Action appendage co-designed with Simon Gush
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Currently, my Compressionist interrogations are performances with a custom-made scanner appendage: I might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around my neck and swing over flowers, do pocked and jagged edges over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies; each action produces a subsequent image that is stretched, cropped, colored and framed, by eye and by hand.

Each finished piece is editioned in a suitable archival format, using photographic and inkjet processes, and I sometimes take details from these images and produce them in other media formats: lithographs, engravings, spit bites, aquatints and more. The works have, and will continue to, become more extravagant and experimental as other artists enlist in the movement, audiences familiarize themselves with the work, and we all explore varying technologies for compression and presentation. Future studies might utilize anything from web-cams to microphones for input, 3D printers to audiotape for output.