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News 2023. November. September. March.

  • In 1974 Marcel Broodthaers launched a 10,000 Franc Reward. The 100 Dollar Reward is the people’s version. More now. More relatable. More hallucinant. — Part of the Je Delire/iRave Pavilion for the Wrong Biennial, curated by Andres Manniste, Joyce Yahouda, and Laurent Bouchard. November 2023.

  • Woodblock print on green mulberry paper, part of Champ Libre exhibition at Atelier Circulaire, Sept 2023.

    ‘Fait de Fleur. 420 PPM’ is a recent, and unique image — a seed image — from an ongoing project of mine to create a more intimate understanding of our firmament. The firmament — from the Latin word firmare — to fix, to make solid, a barrier; and a related word — firmamentium — from the Greek word steréoma — for a generative support or framework, which is why a hammered surface in metal work is often called the firmament. And where am I going with this? To printed matter, and the whole thing of copies and production and reproduction and what I like to think of as the possibility of an intermediary generative frame — and frame, like firmament, is a witchy word. In French a frame is la trame. La trame d’une image. La trame d’une histoire. La trame sonore. In English there’s no single handy word like trame, instead words dissolve into general all purpose words like a plot, a support, or frame, or a material base — it’s surprising but the entire history of photography and printing has to my knowledge in English no specific material language for a generative intermediary frame— outside of the revolutionary idea of the negative — and negative and positive intermediary of an image. Nothing special, until we come to the domain of the virtual. The matrix. Firm ware — the firmament — the firma — between the machine (computer hardware) and software. Oh to mesh, the matrix, la trame, the frame, the plot, the negatives and the positives of the firmament, and a firm little shrub on the side of la rue Bélanger. Scanned with an AR rendering app. Screenshot. Churned through software. Screen matrixes, grids, inversions. Laser cut on a wood matrix. Hand printed on the thinnest possible pale green mulberry paper. Multiple times. An aleatoric confection. Made and remade in movement, through ourselves as moving living creatures. In the matrix of our eye. A firm little shrub on the side of la rue Bélanger. Fait de fleur dans notre temps de 420 PPM.

  • Wood block prints, working in the firmament of la trame, doubled, tripled, quadrupled image, on a single paper surface. Presented at Espace 517, Atelier Circulaire, March 2023