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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
- Issac Newton

 

duo

STONES THROW 2019 - software variation generator with a digital collection of PS isolated stones and algorithmic rules determining shape (i.e. circle, square, grid), size & radius increase or decrease, radial spiral growth, color . . .

s12

s11

 

s10

sGrid

 

s8

s7

 

s9

s1

 

s4

sCirc

 
redstone

From childhood on, I've been arranging stones on sandy gravelly beaches and studio, putting pieces back together from a fractured world run on shore by wind, waves and tides. Sometimes the forces make fleeting or fossilized patterns following the flow, other times seeming chaos. Here playing with loaded dice and a library of stones emerges a mandala machine (of sorts) with new rules and a new palette.

 

Sandy


Northport driveway stones after Hurricane Sandy 2012

when we had no power (except for my iPad charged downtown) . .

 


gh circle


Green Hill Gradient - Burma Road landfill, 2017

yin


Makamah Yin - 2109

 

stone trio


Three Circles at Makamah, 2019