Algorithmic Worlds post

Artist and theoretical physicist Samuel Monnier made a blog post about my recent sculptures, (which were made collaboratively by Ian Henderson and me, photos by Ethan Bickford):

http://www.algorithmic-worlds.net/blog/blog.php?Post=20110118

Short video of me working on various projects

More Exquisite What? sculpture images

Palindrome:

Synecdoche:
Chaord:
Heliogabaline:
Dysphemism:

more sculpture pictures

Heliogabaline:

Chaord:
Synecdoche:

Exquisite What? detail images

"Exquisite What?" now on exhibit

"Exquisite What?"

Ian Henderson and Clint Fulkerson

Fort Port Arts Community Gallery

300 Summer ST Boston, MA

March 12-April 16, 2010

Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:30-8pm

Artists' Presentation:
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:00pm

"Exquisite What?" brings the spirit of blind collaboration into sculptural process, as the Surrealists did for writing and drawing with their famous game, Exquisite Corpse.

The Art is viewed under magnification in enclosed containers, which resemble the handling boxes used by scientists and medical researchers. Visitors reach through openings in the cases to handle the work and examine it from all sides. These boxes allow for an intimate connection with the work while still protecting the objects.

By touching and inspecting the work, viewers will explore their surfaces in a playful, inquisitive manner that reflects the spirit of their creation.

Here are some images of the sculptures. I'm very pleased with the results of our hard work, and I encourage everyone to come out to the opening reception and our presentation or at least to see the show.

All twelve pieces exhibited are sterling silver and are at most 3"-4" long

Pleonasm:

Chiliasm [detail]:
Dysphemism [detail]:
Chiast:
Bifurcation:

Exquisite What? March exhibit

Ian Henderson and I are exhibiting our collaborative sculptures at Boston's Fort Point Community Gallery in March. Contact me with your address if you want a postcard. More e-info to come as the show nears.

wax

Yes, I know it's slow and boring to watch it happen by video, especially in real time, but here is the progress on the wax thus far:

I swear it's not boring for me.

glass

I just acquired some glass stringers (wires) and I'm using my little smithy torch to do some rogue lampworking. This is the first time I've ever worked with hot glass (besides sand casting) and it sure looks like it. This 2" tall "scholars rock" was a blast to make, I can't wait to make something that looks good.

shell growth

I'm sculpting a shell out of wax

This thing is actually grown by adding little blobs of molten wax which make up the striated texture. It is completely hollow. It is one inch long.

I didn't realize my scanner was so dusty, I guess I should clean it.

Roma Plastalina Part 2

My idea here was to sculpt the negative space around a bunch of building shapes, so the lowest level in clay becomes the top of a building once I pour plaster on and flip the thing over. This is my first layer:

I added about 5 layers total, each time adding and blending little snakes of clay  to incrementally build up the walls which become "streets" 
The clay I'm using is the softest grade of Roma Plastilina available, and I swear it's as soft as toothpaste. It's difficult to keep the edges crisp on these walls because they are about 1/8" wide and I sculpted this with a wooden knife and a knitting needle.

I like the clay negative shown here much more than this plaster relief. I just wanted to sculpt the negative space as an exercise, and design it in layers that change gradually.

Roma Plastilina

I'm making some clay models around which I will pour plaster, forming a relief. I'm trying to take some of the lattice, cell packing, geometric, branching, emergent and hierarchical patterns from my drawings and convert them back  into the 3rd dimension.

Crazy Waction

This is a detail of some wax work I'm building in collaboration with Ian Henderson. We call the method Exquisite Wax because we're working in the Exquisite Corpse fashion. This is just the beginning on my first turn. When I decide I'm done, I'll obscure  my wax with a water soluble wax, leaving parts exposed so he can add wax, and mail it to him. When he's done working, he'll do the same, and then we'll cast it in silver or bronze (but probably silver because it casts better with more definition). I also have a wax he sent me already but I'm not showing that one. Technically I shouldn't be posting this publicly because he might see it. It could be called a spoiler. That is why this image is so cropped, hopefully it is confusing. We certainly don't want him premeditating his design based on this. 

Vortex

Today I'm working on a copper wall piece for a show in a week and a half. The piece is a bunch of shapes cut from one sheet of 16 gage copper. They fit together with no space between like a puzzle, and form an oval shape with a hole in the middle, so it looks like a vortex or a hurricane. All of these pieces will be rivetted to another sheet of copper but raised from it to create a shadow. Right now I'm filing the corners of each piece round so they reflect the light, and I only have a few more pieces to file. I can't decide yet whether to just patina the copper pieces so they're darker or to paint the copper somehow. I like the look of oil painted copper, but it might just be a bad idea to cover up the metallic look.