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New Artwork – Four Squares and Forty Kites

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Four Squares and Forty Kites, 2020
uv cured ink on shaped composite aluminum panel
dimensions variable, overall 44″ x 44″ inches
edition of 3

Euclid’s Elements – Book 1 – Definitions, definition XXII, simply says:

“A quadrilateral figure is one which is bounded by four sides.”

So any four sided shape is a quadrilateral. The shape I use in this piece is a form of a quadrilateral that Euclid describes as a kite. Yes, it’s the shape your thinking of, like the traditional flying kite shape.

Per Wikipedia:
In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other. In contrast, a parallelogram also has two pairs of equal-length sides, but they are opposite to each other rather than adjacent. 

The diagonals of a kite are always perpendicular to each other.

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Six Feet Minimum

“Model Citizens” are unique yet at the same time, in structure, much the same.  As unique individuals, all respect their differences and care for the common good. “Model Citizens” have a wi-fi antenna, a symbol for a new age of modernity. We’re apart but not disconnected. Encircling each other through technology in a way unprecedented in history, we’re together.

A collective effort is needed to starve covid-19 of hosts. We need to be model citizens. We need to protect each other. We need to practice social distancing.

It’s our civic duty.

Be good citizens.

It’s a matter of life and death

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Six Feet Minimum, 2020

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New Artwork – Twenty Kites

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Twenty Kites, 2020
uv cured ink on cut-out composite aluminum panel mounted on wall mounted spindle
Panel can be turned both clockwise and counter clockwise.
dimensions variable (62″ x 62″ overall), edition of 3
This is position number 1. With each 45 degree rotation, the location of the colored kites changes as well as the orientation of the kites. Each position is its own composition.

Twenty Kites is an arrangement of the harmonics between the exponentially diminishing grouping of 4 sets of 5 kites meeting at a cross shape central connector.
Detail showing wall mounted spindle and attachment to artwork
Detail of spindle wall mounting plate
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New Artwork – Hexalarious II

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Hexalarious II, 2020
uv cured ink on cut-out composite aluminum panel
edition of 3, dimensions variable (48″ x 48″ overall)

Fabrication of this artwork is made possible with an ADAP grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

The following is from my grant application, titled “The Shape of Things to Come”:

With this grant, I will create 4 artworks, printed on rigid substrates as opposed to media of the traditional digital print (paper/canvas). Printing on rigid substrates opens up a new avenue of exploration in my work by allowing my geometric constructs to expand beyond the confines of square and rectangular formats with use of a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Router that can cut the substrate panel to my specifications.

click here to visit the Ohio Arts Council website