Assembly Codes
Drawings from Games for a Blackout Machine
In the union of two people, in the moment of conception of two cells, mitosis takes place, instant replication and cell division. At the physical level two have become joined as one, at the microscopic level one is becoming two, and then splitting again, endlessly until we have normally the result of a newborn one body with a meld of attributes constituted by the two separate beings. This notion of endless splitting, endless scale shifts, endless divisions, or dissections, is part of the blackout machine, a way to become more, to understand more, to connect more.
All drawings are 2006, ink, gouache, and graphite on paper, 4 3/8 inch diameter.
After the Woods centers on the reunion of a young man and woman after a separation of 1000 years. Willed into existence by a conscious landscape that has rediscovered the code embedded within it, the man becomes a Knight adorned in armor while the woman is transformed into a Princess who over time evolves into a spaceship. While her metamorphosis represents the advancement of artificial intelligence his transformation triggers the evolution and expansion of the natural landscape. The Knight’s quest for the Princess leads him towards a realization and releasing code, disseminating consciousness like a form of alchemy throughout his immediate environment. The forest grows and becomes populated by fantastical creatures creating a new magical eco-system through which technology and nature are combined.