“Beyond Perception seeks to shift the perspective of disability as limitation. Instead, it positions it as a generative force: one that reshapes how art is made, experienced, and understood. This redefinition of disability is expressed by the five participating artists in their respective mediums. “
Exhibiting Artist in the show with me are Ceré Bellow, Kristi Copez, Regina Dorfmeyer, and Meg Matko.
My new tools to create art are the 3d modeling apps MOI and Blender and a 3d printer. I”ve been working in three dimensions for the past three years and presenting this work in the form of video, animation and original music. It’s been an act of reconnection with architecture. Now with my 3d printer, I have the ability to translate it in the physical as sculpture. They are hybrids, part sculpture, part architecture. I call them Art-itectures. I connect with the them of this exhibition, in that with my disability, being a creative is essential with living with debilitating chronic pain. Working in 3d puts me in a head space that is my escape hatch and provides me a place where pain does not live.
My 3d printed sculptures are created from individual parts connected together without mechanical fasteners or adhesives. They can be assembled/disassembled like legos.
Multi-part 3d print (220 parts)
PLA and Stainless Steel
cnc cut uv inkjet on acrylic mounted to composite aluminum
Created with my 3D Derivative process from a virtual camera view looking from the top of the 3d model.