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  • Paintings
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • not paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding (WIP)
      • 2018 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
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  • Paintings
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • not paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding (WIP)
      • 2018 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • CV
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Crucial to Understanding:
a 4 part work in progress.

No Language for Strange Places  WIP (above)
(audio portion)

Audio consists my myself reciting "Secalp egnarts rof egugnal on" (No Language for Strange places written backwards)
I then reversed the recited recording in an attempt to hear the properly pronounced phrase.  
The resulting audio compilation is paired with the text.

Text: Randomly chosen excerpt from Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway Page 173. Typed backwards (with errors) on Stonehenge paper with metallic green/gold ink transfer. Topic of paragraph is historical theoretical physics disputes. Click image below (right ) to see reversal.

Painting: Oil on plywood, 3x4' WIP 
working title "Crucial to Understanding" 

Picture
Crucial to Understanding: (above)
Audio tracks layered in combination include:


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1)Myself reading my phrase "Crucial to understanding the workings of power is an understanding of the nature of power in the semantics of this sentence and repetition of irony in the form of using the power dynamic intrinsic in the structure of language to talk about the power dynamic intrinsic to the structure of language."
2) a computer generated reading of the same phrase.
3)My self reading a randomly generated paragraph with poetic intonation.
4) A you-tube instructional video explaining the Zipf mystery (an algorithm that can predict the frequency of occurrence of letters and words in any text.)

No Language for Strange Places (Sketch/ WIP)
​text paired with Audio  (above)
Picture
Text: Randomly chosen excerpt from Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway Page 173. Typed backwards (with errors) on Stonehenge paper with metallic green/gold ink transfer. Topic of paragraph is historical theoretical physics disputes. Click image to see reversal.

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  • Paintings
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • not paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding (WIP)
      • 2018 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • CV
  • About
  • Contact