In 2004, I created a graphics program that simulated a population of stickmen and stickwomen through various iconic stages of life: birth, play, love, work, rest, travel, and death. From its humble beginning as a school project (thanks Marty!) the Society of Stickpeople has gone through many incarnations, detailed below.
Suspensions
March 27th, 2010Aesthetic Explorations
March 27th, 2010A 4×4 matrix of high quality images, representing a small portion of the parameter space of these particular attractors. This large monoprint was part of my BFA exhibition at the University of Central Florida, where I first started developing artwork from strange attractors. You may recognize some of the individual images, as I have since taken them out of their original context in this work to reinterpret them.
Owl King
March 27th, 2010Death Mask 1 & 2
March 27th, 2010Two artworks created from thousands of individual “faces” during my exploration of Lyapunov space. With gaping, leering mouths and fractured skull-like forms, these images evoke tribal customs surrounding death or spiritual forces. The latest incarnation of these death masks finds them inserted, mirror-like, into oval Baroque-style frames: And here’s what they looked like in my solo exhibition, Process & Influence:









