If Something Can Go Wrong… Other Works

Yeah, stuff breaks. Here are a few more pieces looking at how tech breaks in interesting ways. Many of these pieces, along with many of the Failed Merges, formed the basis for my 2015 La Jolla Athenaeum show, Zero-Zero-P-S (00PS).

Below are mostly explorations of how a digital camera (in this case, camera phones) can distort reality when things are moving really fast. It’s kinduv a geeky thing to be interested in but, hey, that’s me. I guess it’s all a sort of high-speed landscape photography. Hopefully the pixilations and crazy slanting distortions (the faster-moving the object, the more-distorted the camera rendered it) are at least mildly interesting to you too.

And then there’s a piece from the Haywire Printer series. Years ago, probably during the last century, I was in the office one day. Nearby was a networked Okidata dot-matrix printer that just started to spew page after page of digital spittle. One of the pages had this really amazing printing on it that was just too beautiful to throw away. I kept the printout around, vowing I’d do something with it someday. I finally did.

The cellphone pieces are either smaller prints on paper or much larger prints (24 x 54 inches) on aluminum backing.